Essays - First SeriesThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 314 pages American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and advised to "make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." His First Series collects together the following 12 essays: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect and Art. |
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Page 30
... human. Every animal of the barn-yard, the field and the forest, of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth, has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these ...
... human. Every animal of the barn-yard, the field and the forest, of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth, has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these ...
Page 32
... human spirit "to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind." In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful, and fade on the brow of the inconstant. In the story of the Boy and ...
... human spirit "to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind." In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful, and fade on the brow of the inconstant. In the story of the Boy and ...
Page 33
... human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man. A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. His faculties refer to 33.
... human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man. A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. His faculties refer to 33.
Page 34
... humanity; But were the whole frame here, It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch, Your roof were not sufficient to ... human embryo predict the light? the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound? Do not the constructive ...
... humanity; But were the whole frame here, It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch, Your roof were not sufficient to ... human embryo predict the light? the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound? Do not the constructive ...
Page 43
... human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his comer on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of ...
... human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his comer on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of ...
Contents
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39 | |
Compensation | 80 |
Spiritual Laws | 112 |
Love | 145 |
Friendship | 164 |
Prudence | 188 |
Heroism | 207 |
The OverSoul | 226 |
Circles | 254 |
Intellect | 274 |
Art | 295 |
Endnotes | 313 |
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