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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... seem unique and ours alone ? That is , if we are more alike than different , a universal spirit connecting us , then how is each of us special , which , according to Emerson , we are ? Or , from another point of view , if we really are ...
... seem unique and ours alone ? That is , if we are more alike than different , a universal spirit connecting us , then how is each of us special , which , according to Emerson , we are ? Or , from another point of view , if we really are ...
Strana xiv
... seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals , as fast as the government is changed , and the march of civi- lization is a train of felonies , yet , general ends are ...
... seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals , as fast as the government is changed , and the march of civi- lization is a train of felonies , yet , general ends are ...
Strana xv
... seems more reasonable to say no antebellum American writer , except perhaps Nathaniel Hawthorne , would have thought to include a woman at the table . On the other hand , Emerson defies the parochialisms and de- mands of our present ...
... seems more reasonable to say no antebellum American writer , except perhaps Nathaniel Hawthorne , would have thought to include a woman at the table . On the other hand , Emerson defies the parochialisms and de- mands of our present ...
Strana 8
... seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long. The possibility of ... seems a poverty that we can only spend it once: we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might ...
... seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long. The possibility of ... seems a poverty that we can only spend it once: we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might ...
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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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