Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 290 стор. Annotation American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and advised to "make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." His Second Series collects together the following 9 essays: The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist and New England Reformers |
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... Ralph Waldo Emerson. I AM owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual.
... Ralph Waldo Emerson. I AM owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual.
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... Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and ...
... Plato has thought he may think ; what a saint has felt he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and ...
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... . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a per- ception , that our two souls are tinged with the 28 HISTORY .
... . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a per- ception , that our two souls are tinged with the 28 HISTORY .
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... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
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... Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to defect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
... Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to defect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
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