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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... true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the great ...
... true , that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the great ...
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... true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character ...
... true aspirant , therefore , never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse . He hears the commendation , not of himself , but more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character ...
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... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre- exist in the ...
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre- exist in the ...
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... true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its mag- nificent era never gave over the ...
... true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its mag- nificent era never gave over the ...
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... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonder- fully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonder- fully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
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