...THOREAU. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. NATURALIST, STOIC, SCHOLAR, TRANSCENDENTALIST. EXTRACTS. FROM " WALDEN." I SHOULD not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well. I thiuk that we may safely trust a great deal more than we do. We may waive just so...

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...work proper, seen fit to make use of the first person singular throughout. It was Thoreau who said, "We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person who is speaking. Perhaps the title of "In Conclusion" is in itself a misnomer, since our conclusions...

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...their history, written in their language, based on life's experiences of one of them. Thoreau said: "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." And so, my Uncle Mont becomes a symbol. He is one of the nameless thousands who helped settle America...

...continuous and carefully documented projection of the self. Walden announces itself autobiography — "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." The book is an idealized and romantic account of Thoreau's sojourn in the woods. Even its beautiful...

...excuse for doing so is the one given by Henry David Thoreau at the beginning of 'Walden," where he says: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Of course,...

...him as both, and he may have reminded some of them of Thoreau, who on the first page of Walden said: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. ... I require of every writer, f1rst or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life. As they...