A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... believe that he could not , in good conscience , continue to administer the ritual of communion . He was convinced that " most men find the bread and wine no aid to devotion ... to eat bread is one thing ; to love the precepts of Christ ...
... believe only herself can show us how she shall be served . 15 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind , is carried to its logical extreme by the ...
... believe made some such request & told me it was all settled but it is not all ended . 17 It is not surprising that the man who so enjoyed the company of his lively circle of intellectual friends should make such an eloquent case for the ...