Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 290 psl. Annotation 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 Second Series collects together the following 9 essays: The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist and New England Reformers |
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... broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches , a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with 22 HISTORY .
... broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches , a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with 22 HISTORY .
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... painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow- drift along the sides of the stone - wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original ...
... painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow- drift along the sides of the stone - wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original ...
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... painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Fore- world ; in his childhood the Age of Gold ; the Apples of ...
... painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Fore- world ; in his childhood the Age of Gold ; the Apples of ...
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... painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks call Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they ...
... painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks call Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they ...
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... paints itself forth ; but no fact is begotten by it ; it cannot work ; for it is not . It cannot work any good ; it cannot work any harm . It is harm inas- much as it is worse not to be than to be . We feel defrauded of the retribution ...
... paints itself forth ; but no fact is begotten by it ; it cannot work ; for it is not . It cannot work any good ; it cannot work any harm . It is harm inas- much as it is worse not to be than to be . We feel defrauded of the retribution ...
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