EssaysXist Publishing, 2015 M04 20 - 347 pages Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays are an American classic. These essays explore Emerson's thoughts about transcendentalism and romanticism. Some of the most famous essays in this collection are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
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... SCHOLAR 19 COMPENSATION 49 SELF RELIANCE 79 FRIENDSHIP 117 HEROISM 139 MANNERS 156 GIFTS 187 NATURE 193 SHAKESPEARE 217 PRUDENCE ; OR, THE POET 243 CIRCLES 260 NOTES 279 LIFE OF EMERSON Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston,
... SCHOLAR 19 COMPENSATION 49 SELF RELIANCE 79 FRIENDSHIP 117 HEROISM 139 MANNERS 156 GIFTS 187 NATURE 193 SHAKESPEARE 217 PRUDENCE ; OR, THE POET 243 CIRCLES 260 NOTES 279 LIFE OF EMERSON Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston,
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... Shakespeare, only that least part, —only the authentic utterances of the oracle;—all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man ...
... Shakespeare, only that least part, —only the authentic utterances of the oracle;—all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man ...
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... Shakespeare. I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is ...
... Shakespeare. I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is ...
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... Shakespeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought. Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason, or the statements of an absolute truth, without ...
... Shakespeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought. Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason, or the statements of an absolute truth, without ...
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... Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,—is not that mine? His wit, —if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit. Such, also, is the natural history of ...
... Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,—is not that mine? His wit, —if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit. Such, also, is the natural history of ...
Contents
FRIENDSHIP 117 | |
HEROISM 139 | |
MANNERS 156 | |
GIFTS 187 | |
SHAKESPEARE 217 | |
PRUDENCE OR THE POET 243 | |
CIRCLES 260 | |
NOTES 279 | |
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