EMBRACING

NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES.

BY

R. W. EMERSON.

BOSTON:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.

M.DCCC.LVI.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FRON THE LIBRARY OF
NORTCA PERKINS

Oct. 26, 192.01

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY
DEC 6 1968

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED BY U. 0. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

NATURE

5

* THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE

THE Pai BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE,

August 31, 1837

75

.

AN ADDRESS TO THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY

COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, July 15, 1838,

113

LITERARY ETHICS. AN ADDRESS TO THE LITERARY

SOCIETIES IN DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, JULY 24, 1838 . 147

THE METHOD OF NATURE. AN ADDRESS TO THE

SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI, IN WATERVILLE COL-

LEGE, Maine, August 11, 1841

181

MAN THE REFORMER. A LECTURE READ BEFORE

THE MECHANICS' APPRENTICES' LIBRARY ASSOCIA-

TION, Boston, JANUARY 25, 1841

. 217

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON THE TIMES. READ

IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE, Boston, DEC. 2, 1841 . 249