Standard Library Edition

THE WORKS OF

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

WITH A GENERAL INDEX AND A MEMOIR BY JAMES ELLIOT CABOT

WITH STEEL PORTRAITS AND ETCHINGS

IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES

VOLUME II

PS 1600

1883

V.2

BY

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

FIRST SERIES

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1865 and 1876,

BY TICKNOR & FIELDS AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Copyright, 1883,

BY EDWARD W. EMERSON.

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The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass, U. S. A.
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