The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau

Home > Nonfiction > The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau > Page 51
The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau Page 51

by Henry David Thoreau


  batteaux

  beach plum

  bear

  beaver

  beech

  Beecher, Henry Ward

  bees

  beetles

  Berkeley, George

  Bible,

  Bigelow, Jacob

  birch

  birds; nests; see also specific birds

  bittern

  bitters

  blackberry

  blackbird

  black flies

  black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)

  black oak (Quercus velutina)

  black spruce (Abies nigra)

  black tea

  Blitz, Signor

  blueberry

  bluebird

  bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)

  Bodaeus, Johannes

  Book of Judges

  Border Ruffians

  Boston

  Boston Herald

  Boston Post

  botany; see also plants

  Boutwell, George S.

  Brand, John; Popular Antiquities

  bravery

  breams

  Brisbane, Albert

  Brocken spectre

  Brontë, Emily

  brook minnow

  Brooks, Preston

  broom grasses

  broom hickory (Carya glabra)

  Brown, Frederick

  Brown, John; execution of; Harpers Ferry raid; last days of; plea for; Pottawatomie Creek massacre; trial and sentencing of

  Brown, Lucy Jackson

  Brown, Sir Thomas, Christian Morals

  Bryant, William Cullen, “To a Waterfowl,”

  Buchanan, James

  buck-beans (Menyanthes trifoliata)

  buckeye

  buffalo

  Buffon, Comte de; Natural History

  Buford, Jefferson

  Buncombe

  Bunyan, John; The Pilgrim’s Progress

  Burke, William

  Burns, Anthony

  Burton, Sir Richard Francis

  business

  butterfly

  button-bush

  Cabot, John

  caddis-worms

  Caesar, Julius

  California

  Callistephus chinensis, see China-aster

  Calvinism

  Campbell, Thomas, “Gertrude of Wyoming,”

  Canada

  canker-worm

  canoes

  Cape Cod

  caribou

  carp

  Carpenter, William

  carrots

  Carya glabra, see broom hickory

  Cass, Lewis

  Cassandra calyculata, see dwarf andromeda

  Catholic Church

  Cato the Younger

  cattle

  Caucasus

  cedar

  cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)

  Celebes

  cemetery

  Chaldean Oracles

  Champdoré

  Channing, William Francis

  Charles I, King of England

  Charleston

  Charlevoix, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de

  Chaucer, Geoffrey; Canterbury Tales

  Chenopodium Botrys, see Jerusalem oak

  cherry

  cherry-bird, see cedar waxwing

  chestnut

  chestnut oak (Quercus prinus)

  Chesuncook Lake

  chickadee

  children

  China

  China-aster (Callistephus chinensis)

  chivalry

  chivin

  Christianity; see also church; Jesus Christ

  church; tax; and state, division of

  Church of England

  cicada

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius

  “Civil Disobedience,”

  civilization

  Civil War

  Cloud of Unknowing, The

  clouds

  club moss (Lycopodium lucidulum)

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Aids to Reflection

  colors, autumnal

  Columbus, Christopher

  Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus

  common nightshade, see black nightshade

  Commonwealth

  Compromise of 1850

  Concord, Massachusetts

  Concord Lyceum

  Concord River

  Confucius; The Analects

  Congress, U.S.

  conscience

  Constitution, U.S.

  Copernicus, Nicolaus

  Coppoc, Edwin

  corn

  cornel (bunch-berries)

  Cornwallis, Charles

  cotton

  Cotton Whigs

  cowbird

  crab-apple (Malus coronaria); see also wild apple

  cranberry

  crickets

  Crimean War

  Cromwell, Oliver

  crop rotation

  crow

  crystalline botany

  Crystal Palace (London)

  Cumming, Roualeyn George Gordon-

  Curzon, Robert

  Cusa, Nicholas of

  daguerreotype

  Dahomey

  dams

  Daniel, Samuel

  Dante Alighieri

  Darwin, Charles; On the Origin of Species

  “Deacon’s Seat,”

  death

  Declaration of lndependence

  deer

  Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe

  Dekker, Thomas

  democracy

  Democratic Party

  de Monts, Pierre du Guast, Sieur

  Demosthenes

  denominationalism

  desert

  de Staël, Madame

  Dewey, Orville

  Dexter, Timothy

  Dial, The

  dill

  Dinesen, Isak, Out of Africa

  Dionysius

  disease

  District of Columbia

  dogs

  dogwood

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Douglas, Stephen

  Douglass, Frederick

  Downing, Andrew Jackson

  Doyle, John

  Dracaena draco, see dragon-tree

  “The Dragon of Wantley” (anonymous poem)

  dragon-tree (Dracaena draro)

  dreams

  Dubuque, Julien

  ducks

  dung beetle

  dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata)

  eagle

  Easterbrooks Country

  Eastern Indians

  East Main

  ecology

  education

  Edwards, Jonathan

  eels

  Egypt

  electricity

  Eliade, Mircea

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England

  elm

  Emerson, George B.

  Emerson, Lydia

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Address on West India Emancipation; “The Problem,” Representative Men; “Self-Reliance,”

  Emerson, Waldo

  Emysaurus serpentina, see snapping turtle

  Enfield

  England; forests; government

  English Romantics

  entomology

  environmentalism

  Eragrostis pectinacea, see purple grass

  eternity, speaking from

  ethics

  Etruscans

  Etzler, J. A.

  Europe; see also specific countries

  Evelyn, John

  experience

  extended first person, prophetic

  Fairbanks, Thaddeus

  Fair Haven Pond

  fallen leaves

  Faraday, Michael

  feather geranium

  Fiji Islands

  finch

  fir

  fire

  First Parish Church, Concord

  fish; see also specific fish

  fish-hawk, see osprey

  Five Islands

  fli
cker

  Florida

  flycatcher (Tyrannus tyrannus)

  forest trees, succession of

  forked beard-grass (Andropogon furcatus)

  Forster, E. M.; on Tristram Shandy

  fossils

  Fourier, Charles

  Fowler, Thomas

  fox

  Fox, George

  France

  Franklin, Benjamin; Poor Richard’s Almanack

  Franklin, Sir John

  freedom

  Free-Soilers

  frogs

  frost-smoke

  fruits; wild apples

  Fugitive Slave Law

  Fuller-Ossoli, Margaret

  full moon

  Fulton, Robert

  fur trade

  Gandhi, Mohandas

  garget, see poke

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Gaylussacia, see huckleberry

  geese

  Genin, John Nicholas

  genius

  George, King of England

  Georgia

  Germany

  Gesner, Konrad

  Gessler

  Gnaphalium, see life-everlasting

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Italian Journey

  gold

  golden rule

  Goldsmith, Oliver

  gooseberry

  goosefoot

  Gosnold, Bartholomew

  gossip

  governmeht; civil disobedience; slavery and

  Gramineae, see grasses

  grape

  grasses; purple

  gravity

  Gray, Asa

  Gray, Thomas, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,”

  Great North Diver

  Great Pine Forest

  Great Slave Lake

  Greece

  Greeley, Horace

  Greenland

  Greenleaf, Moses; Map of Maine

  Green Mountains

  gulls

  Guyot, Arnold Henry

  Hale, Edward Everett

  Harpers Ferry raid

  Harvard College

  harvest-fly (Cicada)

  hawk

  hay scales

  Hayward, John, The New England Gazetteer

  Head, Sir Francis

  Hebrew Bible

  Hecatompolis

  hedgehog

  hellebore

  hemlock

  Henry, Joseph

  herbs

  Herndon, William Lewis

  Herodians

  Herodotus

  heroism

  heron

  Herrick, Robert

  Hesperides

  hickory

  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

  Hinduism

  Hippocrates

  Hoar, Samuel

  Hodge, James T.

  Holley, Myron

  Homer; The Odyssey

  hornet

  horses

  Hottentots

  Howe, Samuel Gridley

  Howitt, William

  huckleberry (Gaylussacia)

  huckleberry-bird, see sparrow

  Hudson’s Bay

  Humboldt, Alexander von

  humor

  Huns

  hunting

  Hybla

  Hymettus

  Hypericum perforatum, see Saint-John’s-wort

  ice

  ignorance

  imagination

  India

  Indian-grass (Andropogon nutans)

  Indians, see Native Americans

  industry

  insects; see also specific insects

  invertebrates

  Ireland

  Irving, Washington

  Islam

  Isle of Orleans

  Isthmus of Darien

  Italy

  ivy

  Jackson, Charles T.

  jay

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jerusalem oak (Chenopodium Botyrs)

  Jesuit missionaries

  Jesus Christ

  Johnson, Barbara

  Johnson, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language

  Jonson, Ben

  joy

  Juncaceae, see rushes

  Junco hiemalis, see snowbird

  June grass

  juniper

  justice

  Kabir

  Kane, Elisha Kent

  Kansas “Bleeding,” xlii

  Kansas-Nebraska Act

  Kant, Immanuel

  Katahdin, Mount, see Ktaadn

  Katepskonegan Lake

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  kingbird

  King Philip’s War

  Knight, Thomas Andrew

  knowledge

  Knox, John

  koodoo

  Kossuth, Lajos

  “Ktaadn,”

  Labiatae, see mint

  Labrador

  lambkill

  Lane, Charles

  Lapland

  larch

  lark

  Laski, J. K.

  “Last Days of John Brown, The,”

  Latimer, George

  Lawrence, D. H.

  League of Gileadites

  leaves, autumnal

  Lescarbot, Marc

  Lethe (river)

  Liberator, The

  Liberty Party

  lichen

  life-everlasting (Gnaphalium)

  “Life without Principle,”

  light

  lightning

  lily

  Lincoln, Maine

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Linnaeus, Carolus

  lizards

  Locke, JohnAn Essay concerning Human Understanding

  LondonGreat Exhibition

  London Horticultural Society

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  loon

  loosestrife

  López, Narciso

  Loring, Edward Greely

  Loudon, John Claudius

  Louisiana Purchase

  lumber trade

  Luther, Martin

  lyceum movement

  Lycopodium lucidulum, see club moss

  lynx

  Macgregor, Patrick, “Ca-Lodin,” 173, 344; “Carric, a Poem,” 208, 351; The Genuine Remains of Ossian

  machinery

  Macpherson, James, The Poems of Ossian

  magnolia

  Mahomet

  Maine

  malic acid

  Malus coronaria, see crab-apple

  Manila

  manners

  Manu Vaivasvata

  maple red sugar

  Map of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts

  marmot

  marsh hawk

  Marvell, Andrew, “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland,”

  Mason, James M.

  Massachusetts natural history of slavery in

  Massachusetts Supreme Court

  mathematics

  Mattawamkeag

  McAdam, John

  McCauslin, George

  meadow-hay

  meadow-hen

  melons

  Melville, Herman

  memory

  Menyanthes trifoliatu, see buck beans

  Mexican War

  Mexico

  Michaelmas

  Michaux, François André North American Sylva “Travels West of the Alleghanies in 1802,” 160

  Michigan

  Middle Ages

  midges (no-see-ums)

  Milford

  military

  Millinocket River

  Milne, Alexander

  Milton, JohnLycidas Paradise Lost

  mining

  mink

  Minnesota

  mint (Labiatae)

  missionaries

  Mississippi River

  Missouri

  Missouri Compromise

  Mitchel, John

  Mohawk River

  Mohawks

  Molunkus


  money

  moonlight

  Moore, Thomas, “A Canadian Boat Song,”

  moose

  moose-berries

  moose-wood

  Mormons

  Morrison, John

  mosquitoes

  moss

  mossy-cup oak (Quercus macrocarpa)

  mountain-ash

  mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)

  mouse

  Muir, John

  mulberry ash

  Murch Brook

  muskrat

  Mus leucopus, see wood mouse

  mussel (Unio complanatus)

  mythology

  names

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Native Americans

  “Natural History of Massachusetts,”

  Nauvoo

  Nawshawtuct Hill

  Nebraska see also Kansas-Nebraska Act

  Neptune, Louis

  nettle (Urtica urens)

  New England

  Newfoundland

  New Granada

  New Hampshire

  New Jersey

  newspapers, see press; specific publications

  New Testament

  New York

  New York Herald

  New-York Tribune

  New-York Weekly Tribune

  Niagara Falls

  Nickatow

  Niebuhr, Barthold Georg

  Niépce, Joseph-Nicéphore

  Nobscot Hill

  nonresistance, see resistance

  Nootka Sound

  North

  North Twin Lake

  nuthatch

  nuts

  Nuttall, Thomas

  Nymphaea odorata, see water lily

  oak scarlet seed dispersal white

  oats

  O’Connor, Flannery

  Odd Fellow

  Ohio

  Old Testament

  Oldtown

  Old World

  Oregon

  Oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis)

  osprey

  otter

  owl

  Pacific Ocean

  Paley, William The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

  Palladius

  palmerworm

  Palmyra

  Pamadumcook Lake

  panicled andromeda

  “Paradise (To Be) Regained,”

  parish tax

  Parker, Theodore

  Parry, Sir William Edward

  partridge

  Passadumkeag

  Passamagamet Lake

  Patent Office

  patriotism

  Paxton, Sir Joseph

  Peele, George, The Battle of Alcazar

  Pellico, Silvio, Le mie prigioni

  Pennsylvania

  Penobscot Indians

  Penobscot River

  perch

  persimmon

  perspective

  Peter of Amiens

  pewee

  Philip (Metacomet)

  Philips, John

  philosophy

  Phleum alpinum, see timothy grass

  phoebe

  photography

  physical world

  Phytolacca decandra, see poke

  pickerel

  picquer de fond

  pigeon-woodpecker, see flicker

  pignuts

  pigweed

  Pilate

  Pilgrims

  Pilpay

  pine logging of seed dispersal

  pineapple

  pin oak (Quercus palustris)

  Pinus strobus, see white pine

  pitch pine

  plane tree

  plants autumnal tints seed dispersal and germination succession of forest trees wild apples see also nature; specific plants

 

‹ Prev