Centenary Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON

WITH

A BIOGRAPHICAL

INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON AND

A GENERAL INDEX

VOLUME

IV

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1903
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COPYRIGHT, 1876, BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON COPYRIGHT, 1883 AND 1903, BY EDWARD W. EMERSON

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I. USES OF GREAT MEN

II. PLATO; OR, THE PHILOSOPHER

PLATO: NEW READINGS

III. SWEDENBORG; OR, THE MYSTIC

IV. MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SKEPTIC

V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET

VI. NAPOLEON; OR, THE MAN OF THE

WORLD

VII. GOETHE: OR, THE WRITER

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