Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and LecturesHoughton, Miflin, 1883 - 648 páginas Representative Men contains seven essays, the first of which discusses the role great men play in society. The remaining six essays extoll the virtues of six men whom Emerson deemed great: Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature contains the essence of Emerson's transcendental philosophy in which the world of phenomena is seen as symbolic of the inner life, and individual freedom and self-reliance are emphasized. Emerson's addresses apply his doctrine to scholars, clergymen, and others. |
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... Englishman reads and says , ' how English ! ' a Ger- man , how Teutonic ! ' an Italian , how Ro man and how Greek ! ' As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt 42 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
... Englishman reads and says , ' how English ! ' a Ger- man , how Teutonic ! ' an Italian , how Ro man and how Greek ! ' As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt 42 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
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... Italy , to gain what Pythagoras had for him ; then into Egypt , and perhaps still farther East , to import the other element , which Europe wanted , into the Euro- pean mind . This breadth entitles him to stand as the representative of ...
... Italy , to gain what Pythagoras had for him ; then into Egypt , and perhaps still farther East , to import the other element , which Europe wanted , into the Euro- pean mind . This breadth entitles him to stand as the representative of ...
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... Italy ; then into Egypt , where he stayed a long time ; some say three , some say thirteen years . It is said he went farther , into Babylonia : this is uncertain . Returning to Athens , he gave lessons in the Academy to those whom his ...
... Italy ; then into Egypt , where he stayed a long time ; some say three , some say thirteen years . It is said he went farther , into Babylonia : this is uncertain . Returning to Athens , he gave lessons in the Academy to those whom his ...
Página 159
... Italy is quite full of that matter . He took and kept this position of equilibrium . Over his name he drew an emblem- atic pair of scales , and wrote Que sçais je ? under it . As I look at his effigy opposite the title - page , I seem ...
... Italy is quite full of that matter . He took and kept this position of equilibrium . Over his name he drew an emblem- atic pair of scales , and wrote Que sçais je ? under it . As I look at his effigy opposite the title - page , I seem ...
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... chronicles of Brut and Arthur , down to the royal Henries , which men hear eagerly ; and a string of doleful tragedies , merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages , which all the London ' prentices know . 184 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
... chronicles of Brut and Arthur , down to the royal Henries , which men hear eagerly ; and a string of doleful tragedies , merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages , which all the London ' prentices know . 184 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Volumes 1-2 Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização completa - 1892 |
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action animal appears astronomy battle of Austerlitz beauty become behold body born cause church comes conservatism culture dæmons divine doctrine earth exist experience fact faculties faith feel genius give Goethe heart heaven hero honor hope hour human ideas intel intellect labor land light live look Lord Elgin mankind matter means ment mind Montaigne Napoleon nature ness never numbers objects organ perception persons Phædo philosopher plant Plato Plotinus poet poetry RALPH WALDO EMERSON reason reformer relation religion rich scholar seems sense Seven Wise Masters Shakspeare society Socrates soul speak spirit stand stars Swedenborg talent things thou thought tion trade Transcendentalist treach true truth ture universal Uranus virtue Vishnu whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write
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Página 85 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Página 113 - We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame.
Página 59 - Their understanding Begins to swell ; and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores, That now lie foul and muddy.
Página 101 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 9 - Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of...
Página 94 - There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and die sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 92 - ... of the Deity is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice...
Página 38 - In like manner, the memorable words of history and the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth. Thus: A rolling stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay...
Página 31 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 110 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body...