Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 290 pages Annotation 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 Second Series collects together the following 9 essays: The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist and New England Reformers |
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... The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , king- dom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely.
... The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , king- dom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely.
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... Egypt have anything to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them forever be silent . He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the ...
... Egypt have anything to say to him , he will try the case ; if not , let them forever be silent . He must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the ...
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... Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Colonization , Church , Court , and Com- merce , as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . I will not make more account of them . I believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia ...
... Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Colonization , Church , Court , and Com- merce , as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . I will not make more account of them . I believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia ...
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... Egypt she meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diver- sity equally obvious ...
... Egypt she meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diver- sity equally obvious ...
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... Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers . " The cus- tom of making houses and tombs in the living rock , " says Heeren , in his researches on the Ethiopians , " deter- mined very naturally ...
... Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers . " The cus- tom of making houses and tombs in the living rock , " says Heeren , in his researches on the Ethiopians , " deter- mined very naturally ...
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