THE

PRO SE WORKS

OF

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.

Entered according to Acts of Congress, in the years 1847, 1850, 1855, 1856, 1860, and 1869,

by James MONROE & Co., PuiLLIPS, Sampson, & Co., and R. W. Emerson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

REPRESENTATIVE MEN.

I. USES OF GREAT MEN

II. Plato; OR, THE PHILOSOPHER

Plato: New READINGS

III. SWEDENBORG ; OR, THE MYSTIO .

IV. MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SCEPTIO

V. SHAKESPEARE; OR, THE POET

VI. NAPOLEON; OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD

VII. GOETIE; OR, THE WRITER

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ENGLISH TRAITS.

I. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND

II. VOYAGE TO ENGLAND

III. LAND

IV. RACE

V. ABILITY

VI. MANNERS.

VII. TRUTH .

VIII. CHARACTER

IX. COCKAYNE

X. WEALTH

XI. ARISTOCRACY

XII. UNIVERSITIES

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