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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A Daybook Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Lee Grossman. of the human race , as eighty or ninety years ago she was - for the first , of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility , urged on her , too , not by any romance of ...
... human race . " Ah , you always ask me for the that unwritten letter always due , it seems , always unwritten , from year to year , by me to you , dear Lidian- I fear too more widely true than you mean - always due & unwritten by me to ...
... human action as respects right and wrong . Then I shall be asked , And what is Right ? Right is a conformity to the laws of nature as far as they are known to the human mind . 18 Once again Emerson extols astronomy , but he is not quite ...