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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... whole of truth , that it legislates , tyrannizes over a village of God's empire but is not the immutable universal law . Every influx of atheism , of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting & moving a diseased ...
... whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy . Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun , though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack ...
... whole , is sweet & melancholy , & agrees with the American landscape . 26 What is the hardest task in the world ? To think . I would put myself where I have so often been in the attitude of - meeting as it were face to face an abstract ...