Surveying the last three days. --when I would fain be employed on higher subjects.
I have offered myself much more earnestly as a lecturer than a surveyor. Yet I do not get any employment as a lecturer; was not invited to lecture once last winter, and only once (without pay) this winter.
But I can get surveying enough, - which a hundred others in this county can do as well as I, though it is not boasting much to say that a hundred others in New England cannot lecture as well as I on my themes.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, December 22, 1853
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