Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xii
... philosophy of Coleridge , and by the poetry of Wordsworth . The study of Coleridge , to which he stimulated many of his younger contemporaries , begot an interest in the German thinkers , to whom Coleridge owed his leading ideas - Kant ...
... philosophy of Coleridge , and by the poetry of Wordsworth . The study of Coleridge , to which he stimulated many of his younger contemporaries , begot an interest in the German thinkers , to whom Coleridge owed his leading ideas - Kant ...
Page xiii
... philosophy was divided between the business - like sen- sism of Locke and the dreary common - sense doctrine of the Scotch school of Dugald Stewart and Dr. Thomas Brown . It was a philosophy with no outlook ; a philosophy of externalism ...
... philosophy was divided between the business - like sen- sism of Locke and the dreary common - sense doctrine of the Scotch school of Dugald Stewart and Dr. Thomas Brown . It was a philosophy with no outlook ; a philosophy of externalism ...
Page 310
... philosophical arrangement . Thucy- dides , Livy , have only provided materials . The moment a man of genius pronounces ... philosophy . Let it take what tone of pretension it will , to this complexion must it come at last . Take , for ...
... philosophical arrangement . Thucy- dides , Livy , have only provided materials . The moment a man of genius pronounces ... philosophy . Let it take what tone of pretension it will , to this complexion must it come at last . Take , for ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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