The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and Biographical Sketches” presents a collection of insightful lectures and biographical portraits from one of America's most influential thinkers. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a central figure in the transcendentalist movement, offers profound reflections on life, literature, and the human spirit. This volume showcases Emerson's distinctive voice and his enduring impact on American intellectual history.

Included are captivating lectures that explore diverse themes, alongside biographical sketches that provide intimate glimpses into the lives of notable individuals. Emerson's essays, known for their eloquence and depth, continue to inspire readers seeking wisdom and a deeper understanding of the self and the world.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

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The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and Biographical Sketches” presents a collection of insightful lectures and biographical portraits from one of America's most influential thinkers. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a central figure in the transcendentalist movement, offers profound reflections on life, literature, and the human spirit. This volume showcases Emerson's distinctive voice and his enduring impact on American intellectual history.

Included are captivating lectures that explore diverse themes, alongside biographical sketches that provide intimate glimpses into the lives of notable individuals. Emerson's essays, known for their eloquence and depth, continue to inspire readers seeking wisdom and a deeper understanding of the self and the world.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and Biographical Sketches” presents a collection of insightful lectures and biographical portraits from one of America's most influential thinkers. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a central figure in the transcendentalist movement, offers profound reflections on life, literature, and the human spirit. This volume showcases Emerson's distinctive voice and his enduring impact on American intellectual history.

Included are captivating lectures that explore diverse themes, alongside biographical sketches that provide intimate glimpses into the lives of notable individuals. Emerson's essays, known for their eloquence and depth, continue to inspire readers seeking wisdom and a deeper understanding of the self and the world.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781024825084
Publisher: Hutson Street Press
Publication date: 05/22/2025
Pages: 478
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.96(d)

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AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, SUNDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1838. ADDRESS. In this refulgent summer it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers. The air is full of birds, and sweet with the breath of the pine, the balm-of-Gilead, and the new hay. Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade. Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays. Man under them seems a young child, and his huge globe a toy. The cool night bathes the world as with a river, and prepares his eyes again for the crimson dawn. The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily. The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures, and the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation. One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world, in which our senses converse. How wide; how rich; what invitation from every property it gives to every faculty of man ! In its fruitful soils; in its navigable sea; in its mountains of metal and stone; in its forests of all woods; in its animals ; in its chemical VOL. I. H ingredients; in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction, and life, it is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it. The planters, the mechanics, the inventors, the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honour. But when the mind opens, and reveals the laws which traverse the universe, and make things what they are, then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fableof this mind. What am I ? and What is ? asks the human spirit with a curiosity ...

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