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A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine

Henry David Thoreau

『A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine』is a free short e-book of Henry David Thoreau available on Project Gutenberg. It has 8,565 words and may take about 30min to read.

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[Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859.] I trust that you will pardon me for being here.

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Henry David Thoreau

(1817 - 1862)

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