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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... object 1 is not object 2 is not object 3 , etc. We have no theory of animated Nature . When we have , it will be the true Classification . Perhaps the study of the cat- tle on the mountainside as they graze , is more suggestive of truth ...
... object , blending for the time that object with the real and only good , and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest . When we speak truly is not he only unhappy who is not in love ? his fancied free- dom and self - rule ...
... object of the universe to us is the formation of character . If you think you came into being for the pur- pose of ... objects . If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision , outlines and surfaces become trans- parent , and are no ...