Essays - First SeriesThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 314 pages American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and advised to "make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." His First Series collects together the following 12 essays: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect and Art. |
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Page 15
... faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder. A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild ...
... faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder. A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild ...
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... face is a confused blur of features, but composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on ...
... face is a confused blur of features, but composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on ...
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... face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time. I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency. Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is ...
... face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time. I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency. Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is ...
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... face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ...
... face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ...
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... face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment ... faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it; so that one babe commonly makes four or five ...
... face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment ... faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it; so that one babe commonly makes four or five ...
Contents
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| 39 | |
Compensation | 80 |
Spiritual Laws | 112 |
Love | 145 |
Friendship | 164 |
Prudence | 188 |
Heroism | 207 |
The OverSoul | 226 |
Circles | 254 |
Intellect | 274 |
Art | 295 |
Endnotes | 313 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Essays - First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | The Floating Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1877527777, 9781877527777 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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