The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xvi
... philosophers , though the modern metaphysi- cians did not interest him . He was only in the upper half of his class , yet he won prizes for declamation and dissertations . " Even in col- lege I was already content to be ' screwed ' in ...
... philosophers , though the modern metaphysi- cians did not interest him . He was only in the upper half of his class , yet he won prizes for declamation and dissertations . " Even in col- lege I was already content to be ' screwed ' in ...
Page xxii
... philosophy and poetry of ancient Greeks . always spoke to him , so now in Italy , seeing their sculptured deities and heroes and the con- trast between these faces and those of the living throng around , he said , " These are the counte ...
... philosophy and poetry of ancient Greeks . always spoke to him , so now in Italy , seeing their sculptured deities and heroes and the con- trast between these faces and those of the living throng around , he said , " These are the counte ...
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... philosopher . " shall Lastly . In his Essay " Poetry and Imagina- tion , " made up from lectures , some of which were given early , Mr. Emerson credits John Hunter with " the electric word arrested and progressive development ...
... philosopher . " shall Lastly . In his Essay " Poetry and Imagina- tion , " made up from lectures , some of which were given early , Mr. Emerson credits John Hunter with " the electric word arrested and progressive development ...
Page xl
... 1870 and 1871 he delivered a course of lectures on Philosophy there , but the undertaking was too much for his • Remembrances of Emerson , by John Albee . strength , which had begun to fail . A friend xl BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
... 1870 and 1871 he delivered a course of lectures on Philosophy there , but the undertaking was too much for his • Remembrances of Emerson , by John Albee . strength , which had begun to fail . A friend xl BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
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... philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us , by the powers they ...
... philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us , by the powers they ...
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