Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and LecturesHoughton, Miflin, 1883 - 648 psl. Representative Men contains seven essays, the first of which discusses the role great men play in society. The remaining six essays extoll the virtues of six men whom Emerson deemed great: Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature contains the essence of Emerson's transcendental philosophy in which the world of phenomena is seen as symbolic of the inner life, and individual freedom and self-reliance are emphasized. Emerson's addresses apply his doctrine to scholars, clergymen, and others. |
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... exist for the excellent . world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome . They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society ; and ...
... exist for the excellent . world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome . They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society ; and ...
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... exist that there may be greater men . The destiny of organized nature is amelioration , and who can tell its limits ? It is for man to tame the chaos ; on every side , whilst he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that ...
... exist that there may be greater men . The destiny of organized nature is amelioration , and who can tell its limits ? It is for man to tame the chaos ; on every side , whilst he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that ...
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... exists to seek . This faith in the Divinity is never out of mind , and constitutes the ground of all his dogmas . Body cannot teach wisdom ; — God only . In the same mind he constantly affirms that virtue cannot be taught ; that it is ...
... exists to seek . This faith in the Divinity is never out of mind , and constitutes the ground of all his dogmas . Body cannot teach wisdom ; — God only . In the same mind he constantly affirms that virtue cannot be taught ; that it is ...
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... exists entire in leasts , " is a favorite thought of Swedenborg . " It is a constant law of the organic body that large , compound , or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller , simpler and ultimately from invisible forms , which ...
... exists entire in leasts , " is a favorite thought of Swedenborg . " It is a constant law of the organic body that large , compound , or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller , simpler and ultimately from invisible forms , which ...
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... exist from an influx of the Lord , through heaven . " This de- sign of exhibiting such correspondences , which , if adequately executed , would be the poem of the world , in which all history and science would play an essential part ...
... exist from an influx of the Lord , through heaven . " This de- sign of exhibiting such correspondences , which , if adequately executed , would be the poem of the world , in which all history and science would play an essential part ...
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Representative Men– Nature, Addresses and Lectures, 1–2 tomai Ralph Waldo Emerson Visos knygos peržiūra - 1892 |
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