Representative Men: Seven LecturesRandom House Publishing Group, 18. 12. 2007 - Počet stran: 192 Introduction by Brenda Wineapple In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative Men”: Plato, in whose writings are contained “the culture of nations”; Emanuel Swedenborg, a “rich discoverer” who strove to unite the scientific and spiritual planes; Michel de Montaigne, “the frankest and honestest of all writers”; William Shakespeare, who “wrote the text of modern life”; Napoleon Bonaparte, who had the “virtues and vices” of common men writ large; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who “in conversation, in calamity…finds new materials.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic reflects the author’s corrections for an 1876 reprinting. |
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... characters not write lives , " he counseled himself in his journals . The line from Plutarch to Emerson to modern biography is clear . Interested in biography as instruction ( like Plutarch ) , Emerson did not bother himself with facts ...
... characters not write lives , " he counseled himself in his journals . The line from Plutarch to Emerson to modern biography is clear . Interested in biography as instruction ( like Plutarch ) , Emerson did not bother himself with facts ...
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... character, and politics. But this comes later. We speak now only of our acquaintance with them in their own sphere, and the way in which they seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his ...
... character, and politics. But this comes later. We speak now only of our acquaintance with them in their own sphere, and the way in which they seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his ...
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... character and actions , answer questions which I have not skill to put . One man answers some ques- tion which none of his contemporaries put , and is isolated . The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question ...
... character and actions , answer questions which I have not skill to put . One man answers some ques- tion which none of his contemporaries put , and is isolated . The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question ...
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... character , and politics . But this comes later . We speak now only of our acquaintance with them in their own sphere , and the way in which they seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing , all ...
... character , and politics . But this comes later . We speak now only of our acquaintance with them in their own sphere , and the way in which they seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing , all ...
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PLATO OR THE PHILOSOPHER | 23 |
SWEDENBORG OR THE MYSTIC | 53 |
MONTAIGNE OR THE SCEPTIC | 85 |
SHAKSPEARE OR THE POET | 107 |
NAPOLEON OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD | 126 |
GOETHE OR THE WRITER | 147 |
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