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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... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Everything tends in a ...
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Everything tends in a ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble cen- taur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble cen- taur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like ...
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... senses , — of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets 26 ...
... senses , — of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets 26 ...
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... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply , - and are speak as persons who have great good sense HISTORY . 27.
... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply , - and are speak as persons who have great good sense HISTORY . 27.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. and are speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet ... senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. and are speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet ... senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity ...
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