It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.
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I still am in the stream of thought that started in this country with Emerson and Thoreau and Whitman.
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Your book incorporates a number of literary quotes, as well as references to artists and thinkers like Van Gogh and Thoreau.
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And of course, Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience” because of his disgust with the scourge of slavery in the United States.
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Mr. Thoreau wanted to drive life into a corner, to live deep and suck out all the marrow.
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Back at the door of the cabin Thoreau stood with one of his big arms encircling Marie's slim shoulders.
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It was close to the slope where Thoreau now lies, and not far away is the grassy resting-place of Emerson.
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He had more humor than Burroughs, more even than Thoreau, a sly Scotch drollery that was never boisterous, never cynical.
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The difference between it and a passage from Thoreau is the difference between a reverie in the study and a battle in the woods.
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The townfolk looked upon Thoreau and Alcott with suspicious eyes.
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British Dictionary definitions for Thoreau
Thoreau
/ (ˈθɔːrəʊ, θɔːˈrəʊ) /
noun
Henry David. 1817–62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi