... two days to go from New York City to Philadelphia by stagecoach. But the first successful voyage of Robert Fulton's steamboat, which became famous as the Clermont, signaled a promising new era in the history of transportation. Sojourner Truth was the name used by Isabella Baumfree, one ... In addition, his first wife, Ellen, died in 1831 and his first son, Waldo, died in 1842. Emerson wrote one of his finest poems, "Threnody," for his son. In 1817, Emerson entered Harvard College, where he developed lifelong interests in literature and philosophy. After graduating in 1821, ... solid, th...

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... is delightful and contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful and exuberant writing. But the travel narrative takes up less than half of the book. Interspersed are a wide range of essays, poems, translations, and quotations (Miller 57)." Perhaps for these reasons and despite the generally good reviews, the book just failed to sell. Another significant event occurred in early 1846 during Henry ... he had not paid the taxes himself he still deserved to be in jail. That evening spent in jail had prompted Henry to write what became one of his most famous essays and one of the most important p...

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