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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... sense , admits their co- herency , their use and beauty , and then asks the material- ist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them . But I , he says , affirm facts not affected by the illusions of sense ...
... sense , they would become the thoughts we have ; could our thoughts take form they would hang as sunny leaves . And yet it is not by direct study of these enchantments that their sense is to be extorted , but by manlier & total methods ...
... sense or virtue in our politics , or of great sense in a book , - I will send it on to the formidable man ; but I will not repeat to him every month , that there are no news . Thank me for my resolution , & for keeping it through the ...