Representative Men: Seven LecturesGood Press, 20. 11. 2019 - Počet stran: 221 Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Contents: Uses of great men, Plato ("the Philosopher"), Emanuel Swedenborg ("the Mystic"), Michel de Montaigne ("the Skeptic"), William Shakespeare ("the Poet"), Napoleon ("the Man of the World") and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("the Writer"). |
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... equal to his best parts”—of Falkland; “who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.” We cannot read Plutarch, without a tingling of the blood; and I accept the saying ...
... equal to his best parts”—of Falkland; “who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.” We cannot read Plutarch, without a tingling of the blood; and I accept the saying ...
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... equal inward force to guide the great machine! This pleasure of full expression to that which, in their private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs, also, much higher, and is the secret of the reader's joy in literary ...
... equal inward force to guide the great machine! This pleasure of full expression to that which, in their private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs, also, much higher, and is the secret of the reader's joy in literary ...
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... equal to his office; captains, ministers, senators. I like a master standing firm on legs of iron, well- born, rich, handsome, eloquent, loaded with advantages, drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power ...
... equal to his office; captains, ministers, senators. I like a master standing firm on legs of iron, well- born, rich, handsome, eloquent, loaded with advantages, drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power ...
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... equal scope for every creature. Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere, and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation. The heroes of the hour are relatively great: of a faster ...
... equal scope for every creature. Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere, and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation. The heroes of the hour are relatively great: of a faster ...
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PLATO OR THE PHILOSOPHER | |
NEW READINGS | |
SWEDENBORG OR THE MYSTIC | |
MONTAIGNE OR THE SKEPTIC | |
SHAKSPEARE OR THE POET | |
NAPOLEON OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD | |
GOETHE OR THE WRITER | |
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