Journal, Volume 4 
Subtitle: 1851-1852
Contributors: Leonard N. Neufeldt (Editor); Nancy Craig Simmons (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 21, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9780691065359
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Authors, American; 19th Century American Prose; Biography / Autobiography; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Literary; American Language and Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 1817-1862; Thoreau, Henry David,; 19th century; Diaries
First sentence: I find that I conciliate the gods by some sacrament as bathing-or abstemiousness in diet-or rising early-and directly they Smile on me.