Concordance for Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

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The word 'LUXURIES' in context

 
 name. And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful
 times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green
 sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt? Even the little
 variety which I used was a yielding to the demands of appetite, and
 not of health. Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently
 starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries; and I
 know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he
 took to drinking water only.
   The reader will perceive that I am treating the subject rather
 from an economic than a dietetic point of view, and he will not
 venture to put my abstemiousness to the test unless he has a
 well-stocked larder.
   Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine
 hoe-cakes, which I baked before my fire out of doors on a shingle or
 the end of a stick of timber sawed off in building my house; but it
 was wont to get smoked and to have a piny flavor, I tried