the Thoreau Log.
3 February 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  3 P.M.—To Gowing’s Swamp . . .

  When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly,—as that a sentence must never end with a particle,—and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it . . .

(Journal, 13:124-125)

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