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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... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
... live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the ...
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... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular con- venience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will ...
... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular con- venience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , some- time , it will ...
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... lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us ...
... lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us ...
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... domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as VOL . I. warm , dines with as good appetite , and associates HISTORY . 25.
... domestication , lives in his wagon , and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he sleeps as VOL . I. warm , dines with as good appetite , and associates HISTORY . 25.
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... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as ...
... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as ...
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