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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... nature , and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual , people are at their best when truly " self - reliant " and independent . Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday ...
... nature , and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual , people are at their best when truly " self - reliant " and independent . Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday ...
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... natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal ... Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth ...
... natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal ... Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth ...
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... nature, the more it is reactive. Let us have the quality pure. A little genius let us leave alone. A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not. Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the ...
... nature, the more it is reactive. Let us have the quality pure. A little genius let us leave alone. A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not. Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the ...
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... nature in us . What is thus learned is delightful in the doing , and the effect remains . Right ethics are central , and go from the soul outward . Gift is contrary to the law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must ...
... nature in us . What is thus learned is delightful in the doing , and the effect remains . Right ethics are central , and go from the soul outward . Gift is contrary to the law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must ...
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... nature, whose agent and interpreter he is, as Linnaeus, of plants; Huber, of bees; Fries, of lichens; Van Mons, of pears; Dalton, of atomic forms; Euclid, of lines; Newton, of fluxions. A man is a center for nature, running out threads ...
... nature, whose agent and interpreter he is, as Linnaeus, of plants; Huber, of bees; Fries, of lichens; Van Mons, of pears; Dalton, of atomic forms; Euclid, of lines; Newton, of fluxions. A man is a center for nature, running out threads ...
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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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