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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... poet Jones Very . He gave up preaching and collaborated with Margaret Fuller on the journal The Dial , in which he began to publish his essays . These appeared in book form as Essays : First Series ( 1841 ) and Essays : Second Series ...
... poet Jones Very . He gave up preaching and collaborated with Margaret Fuller on the journal The Dial , in which he began to publish his essays . These appeared in book form as Essays : First Series ( 1841 ) and Essays : Second Series ...
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... , THE SCEPTIC V. SHAKSPEARE ; OR , THE POET VI . NAPOLEON ; OR , THE MAN OF THE WORLD VII . GOETHE ; OR , THE WRITER V ix xvii 46 53 85 3 3 6 3 5 m 126 17 23 107 INTRODUCTION Brenda Wineapple " Every hero becomes a bore at.
... , THE SCEPTIC V. SHAKSPEARE ; OR , THE POET VI . NAPOLEON ; OR , THE MAN OF THE WORLD VII . GOETHE ; OR , THE WRITER V ix xvii 46 53 85 3 3 6 3 5 m 126 17 23 107 INTRODUCTION Brenda Wineapple " Every hero becomes a bore at.
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... poet ; Napoleon , the man of the world ; Goethe , the writer ; and each of them stands for some aspect of human endeavor and potential . Yet all of them - human , too human - have feet of clay . Plato lacks a system and the authority of ...
... poet ; Napoleon , the man of the world ; Goethe , the writer ; and each of them stands for some aspect of human endeavor and potential . Yet all of them - human , too human - have feet of clay . Plato lacks a system and the authority of ...
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... poet whom I describe , " he had not yet read Whitman's Leaves of Grass . ( When Whit- man self - consciously answered Emerson's call - to - poetry with a pre- sentation copy of his book , Emerson immediately said he'd found the American ...
... poet whom I describe , " he had not yet read Whitman's Leaves of Grass . ( When Whit- man self - consciously answered Emerson's call - to - poetry with a pre- sentation copy of his book , Emerson immediately said he'd found the American ...
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... poetic ; that is , their genius is paramount . In the legends of the Gautama , the first men ate the earth , and found it deli- ciously sweet . Nature seems to exist for the excellent . The world is upheld by the veracity of good men ...
... poetic ; that is , their genius is paramount . In the legends of the Gautama , the first men ate the earth , and found it deli- ciously sweet . Nature seems to exist for the excellent . The world is upheld by the veracity of good men ...
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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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