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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... hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact and circumstance , in the running river and the rustling corn ...
... hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact and circumstance , in the running river and the rustling corn ...
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... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Cau- casian man , - perhaps older ...
... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Cau- casian man , - perhaps older ...
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... hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart ...
... hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart ...
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... hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the members agree ...
... hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which the members agree ...
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... hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church . Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word ? Do I not know that , with all this ostentation ...
... hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church . Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word ? Do I not know that , with all this ostentation ...
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