Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thoreau” in chapter 1 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book:

...ternational copyright. This is the frame of mind which is deprecated in this volume, because it is the last source from which any strong or self-reliant literary work can proceed. In the words of Thoreau , I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. Cambridge, Mass., October 1, 1891.
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
H. D. Thoreau 60 24 0 0 0 user votes
Henry Thoreau 194 0 0 0 0 user votes
Henry David Thoreau 150 0 0 0 0 user votes
Thoreau 142 0 0 0 0 user votes
Henry D. Thoreau 117 0 1 0 0 user votes
Miss Thoreau 34 0 0 0 0 user votes
David Henry Thoreau 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Helen Thoreau 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Thoreau 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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