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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... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Cati- line . It is the universal nature which gives worth to partic- ular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Cati- line . It is the universal nature which gives worth to partic- ular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
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... 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 point of view from which ...
... 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 point of view from which ...
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... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
... person as he , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with ...
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... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete - form . Then we have it once more in HISTORY . 19.
... persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ; a very complete - form . Then we have it once more in HISTORY . 19.
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... persons speak simply , - and are speak as persons who have great good sense HISTORY . 27.
... persons speak simply , - and are speak as persons who have great good sense HISTORY . 27.
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