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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... stands on a new spot and serves for new combinations. From everything he sees the direct line issuing which connects it with the focus of life.... ".... Emerson's theory is that of the 'sovereignty of the individual.' To discover what a ...
... stands on a new spot and serves for new combinations. From everything he sees the direct line issuing which connects it with the focus of life.... ".... Emerson's theory is that of the 'sovereignty of the individual.' To discover what a ...
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... stands connected with his wherever the English language is spoken. Emerson, the younger of the two, had just broken his ... stand firm, place them how or where you will. He criticised Swedenborg for being superfluously explanatory, and ...
... stands connected with his wherever the English language is spoken. Emerson, the younger of the two, had just broken his ... stand firm, place them how or where you will. He criticised Swedenborg for being superfluously explanatory, and ...
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... stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him ... stands by itself. By and by it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three ...
... stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him ... stands by itself. By and by it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three ...
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... stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind ... stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers ...
... stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind ... stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers ...
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... stand to society, and especially to educated society. For all this loss and scorn, what offset? He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature. He is one who raises himself from private considerations and ...
... stand to society, and especially to educated society. For all this loss and scorn, what offset? He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature. He is one who raises himself from private considerations and ...
Contents
FRIENDSHIP 117 | |
HEROISM 139 | |
MANNERS 156 | |
GIFTS 187 | |
SHAKESPEARE 217 | |
PRUDENCE OR THE POET 243 | |
CIRCLES 260 | |
NOTES 279 | |
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