The Spirit of American LiteratureJohnson Reprint Corporation, 1969 - 347 sider |
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... Emerson's phrase reflecting this idea is " the sovereignty of ethics . " Things are what we ought to make them , and that is the only sense in which they really exist . Such is Fichte's simplest message , and it is central in Emerson's ...
... Emerson's phrase reflecting this idea is " the sovereignty of ethics . " Things are what we ought to make them , and that is the only sense in which they really exist . Such is Fichte's simplest message , and it is central in Emerson's ...
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... Emerson , like the Uni- tarians , preaches original virtue . His serene manner of reversing some of the facts of life so that they all face one way is , at some moments , irritating , but in the end and on the ... Emerson's EMERSON 61.
... Emerson , like the Uni- tarians , preaches original virtue . His serene manner of reversing some of the facts of life so that they all face one way is , at some moments , irritating , but in the end and on the ... Emerson's EMERSON 61.
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John Albert Macy. man's merits at once , as Emerson saw them without waiting for other people to point them out . Emerson is one of the few great preachers who do not stand small in their pulpits and who do not lay their greatness aside ...
John Albert Macy. man's merits at once , as Emerson saw them without waiting for other people to point them out . Emerson is one of the few great preachers who do not stand small in their pulpits and who do not lay their greatness aside ...
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Preface Chapter I General Characteristics | 3 |
Irving | 18 |
Cooper | 35 |
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