...following quotation places this matter before the mind of the reader : — The Hut by the Walden Pond. Thoreau's hermit life was not, then, merely a protest...was not to live cheaply, nor to live dearly there, butto transactsome private business with few obstacles." He lived a life of labour and study in his...

...the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got. My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...transact some private business with the fewest obstacles ; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and...

...the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...transact some private business with the fewest obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and...

...the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got. My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...transact some private business with the fewest obstacles ; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and...

...the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got. My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...transact some private business with the fewest obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and...

...to take his own statement as to why he went there. He says — "My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...some private business with the fewest obstacles." The "private business" was to edit "The Week." Channing says — "The fact that our author lived for...

...and welcomed such friends as came out to his retreat. "My purpose in going to Walden Pond," said he, "was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...some private business with the fewest obstacles." Before this he and his brother had built a boat and journeyed in it up and down the Concord and Merrimac...

...austerities with stern satisfaction. In Vtalden he emphatically states, "My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there but...some private business with the fewest obstacles." Walden was for Thoreau a spiritual retreat where he strove to deepen his understanding of his existence...

...down to the woods for other purposes." Earlier he had said that "my purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there,...some private business with the fewest obstacles." The "not"s and the "nor"s undo obstacles, remove encumbrances, take away all that stands between us...

...since his own words on the subject are cryptic. 'My purpose', he says, 'was not to live cheaply or dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles.' But in his conclusion he is more explicit about what he learned. I learned this at least, by my experiment;...