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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... soul to convey his quality to other men. And every one can do his best thing easiest—“Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.” He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. But he must be related to us, and our ...
... soul to convey his quality to other men. And every one can do his best thing easiest—“Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.” He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. But he must be related to us, and our ...
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... soul outward . Gift is contrary to the law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . “ Mind thy affair , " says the spirit : - " coxcomb , the spirit : - " coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies ...
... soul outward . Gift is contrary to the law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . “ Mind thy affair , " says the spirit : - " coxcomb , the spirit : - " coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies ...
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... soul is impatient of masters, and eager for change. Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, “She has lived with me long enough.” We are tendencies, or rather, symptoms, and none of us complete. We touch and go, and sip the ...
... soul is impatient of masters, and eager for change. Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, “She has lived with me long enough.” We are tendencies, or rather, symptoms, and none of us complete. We touch and go, and sip the ...
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... soul who knows little of persons or parties, of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player, bankrupts every self- seeker, and apprises ...
... soul who knows little of persons or parties, of Carolina or Cuba, but who announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player, bankrupts every self- seeker, and apprises ...
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... souls, and releases his servants from their barbarous homages; an emperor, who can spare his empire. But I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service. Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe; but ...
... souls, and releases his servants from their barbarous homages; an emperor, who can spare his empire. But I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service. Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe; but ...
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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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