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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... things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye ... thing easiest—“Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.” He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us ...
... things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye ... thing easiest—“Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.” He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us ...
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... things were representative . Men are also representative ; first , of things , and secondly , of ideas . As plants convert the minerals into food for animals , so each man converts some raw material in nature to human use . The ...
... things were representative . Men are also representative ; first , of things , and secondly , of ideas . As plants convert the minerals into food for animals , so each man converts some raw material in nature to human use . The ...
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... thing its lover and poet. Justice has already been done to steam, to iron, to wood, to coal, to loadstone, to iodine, to ... things—“He saw that they were good.” We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more ...
... thing its lover and poet. Justice has already been done to steam, to iron, to wood, to coal, to loadstone, to iodine, to ... things—“He saw that they were good.” We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more ...
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... thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these, their ends, all things continually ascend. The gases ...
... thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these, their ends, all things continually ascend. The gases ...
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... things, we catch the charm which lured them. Napoleon said, “you must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking ...
... things, we catch the charm which lured them. Napoleon said, “you must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.” Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking ...
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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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