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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... things of which he had previously been ignorant; he had profited by detachment from the concerns of a limited community and an isolated church. After his return he began to find his true field of activity in the lecture-hall, and ...
... things of which he had previously been ignorant; he had profited by detachment from the concerns of a limited community and an isolated church. After his return he began to find his true field of activity in the lecture-hall, and ...
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... things inspiring. Through them many were induced to strive for a higher self-culture. His influence can be discerned in all the literary movements of the time. He was the central figure of the so-called transcendental school which was ...
... things inspiring. Through them many were induced to strive for a higher self-culture. His influence can be discerned in all the literary movements of the time. He was the central figure of the so-called transcendental school which was ...
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... things condense themselves, take shape and body, if they are to have my sympathy.' ... ".... Not with the Miltons ... thing as you say. I do not belong to the poets, but only to a low department of literature,—the reporters; suburban men ...
... things condense themselves, take shape and body, if they are to have my sympathy.' ... ".... Not with the Miltons ... thing as you say. I do not belong to the poets, but only to a low department of literature,—the reporters; suburban men ...
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... thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer ...
... thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer ...
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... things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my ...
... things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my ...
Contents
FRIENDSHIP 117 | |
HEROISM 139 | |
MANNERS 156 | |
GIFTS 187 | |
SHAKESPEARE 217 | |
PRUDENCE OR THE POET 243 | |
CIRCLES 260 | |
NOTES 279 | |
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