Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1883 - Počet stran: 648 Representative Men contains seven essays, the first of which discusses the role great men play in society. The remaining six essays extoll the virtues of six men whom Emerson deemed great: Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature contains the essence of Emerson's transcendental philosophy in which the world of phenomena is seen as symbolic of the inner life, and individual freedom and self-reliance are emphasized. Emerson's addresses apply his doctrine to scholars, clergymen, and others. |
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Strana 17
... wish for a thousand heads , a thousand ' bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! VOL . IV ...
... wish for a thousand heads , a thousand ' bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! VOL . IV ...
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... wish . I go to a con- vention of philanthropists . Do what I can , I cannot keep my eyes off the clock . But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Caro- lina or Cuba , but who ...
... wish . I go to a con- vention of philanthropists . Do what I can , I cannot keep my eyes off the clock . But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Caro- lina or Cuba , but who ...
Strana 27
... wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets , envies and hatreds of his competitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no exclusions . 99 I I admire ...
... wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets , envies and hatreds of his competitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no exclusions . 99 I I admire ...
Strana 31
... wishes one son a genius , though all the rest should be mediocre . But a new danger appears in the ex- cess of influence of the great man . His attractions warp us from our place . We have become under- lings and intellectual suicides ...
... wishes one son a genius , though all the rest should be mediocre . But a new danger appears in the ex- cess of influence of the great man . His attractions warp us from our place . We have become under- lings and intellectual suicides ...
Strana 32
... wishes every thing to remain itself ; and whilst every individual strives to grow and ex- clude and to exclude and grow , to the extremities of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily ...
... wishes every thing to remain itself ; and whilst every individual strives to grow and ex- clude and to exclude and grow , to the extremities of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature steadily ...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Svazky 1–2 Ralph Waldo Emerson Úplné zobrazení - 1892 |
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