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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... poor men suffer whilst the Universal Genius appris- es me of this disgrace & beckons me to the martyr's & redeemer's office . 18 Newspapers reported that this address was deliv- ered in the presence of President Lincoln and some of his ...
... poor patriarchal exhorting brother some of the sweet waters . Write , write . I have heard men say ( heaven help their poor wits , ) they had rather have ten words viva voce from a man than volumes of letters for getting at his opin ...
... Poor Irish , rich planter , and planter's poor tenant , all are alike his enemies . His best hope lies in his proved faculty to make himself useful and indispensable in hot climates : and when the odds of ten to one are taken off , that ...