Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and LecturesHoughton, Miflin, 1883 - Počet stran: 648 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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... questions which I have not skill to put . One man answers some question which none of his con- temporaries put , and is isolated . The past and - passing religions and philosophies answer some other question . 12 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
... questions which I have not skill to put . One man answers some question which none of his con- temporaries put , and is isolated . The past and - passing religions and philosophies answer some other question . 12 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
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... question . Certain men affect us as rich pos- sibilities , but helpless to themselves and to their times , the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air ; - they do not speak to our want . But the great are near ; we know ...
... question . Certain men affect us as rich pos- sibilities , but helpless to themselves and to their times , the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air ; - they do not speak to our want . But the great are near ; we know ...
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... question concerning his reputed works , what are genuine , what spurious . It is singu- lar that wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries , it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works . Thus ...
... question concerning his reputed works , what are genuine , what spurious . It is singu- lar that wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries , it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works . Thus ...
Strana 92
... questions of Whence ? What ? and Whither ? and the solution of these must be in a life , and not in a book . A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply ; but Moses , Menu , Jesus , work directly on this problem . The atmosphere of ...
... questions of Whence ? What ? and Whither ? and the solution of these must be in a life , and not in a book . A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply ; but Moses , Menu , Jesus , work directly on this problem . The atmosphere of ...
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... question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had ? Is not marriage an open question , when it is alleged , from the beginning of the world , that such as are in the institution wish to get out , and such as are ...
... question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had ? Is not marriage an open question , when it is alleged , from the beginning of the world , that such as are in the institution wish to get out , and such as are ...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Svazky 1–2 Ralph Waldo Emerson Úplné zobrazení - 1892 |
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Strana 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
Strana 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.
Strana 59 - Their understanding Begins to swell ; and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores, That now lie foul and muddy.
Strana 101 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...