EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book An Address Delivered Before the Philorhetorian and Peithologian Societies of the Wesleyan University  Literary Character of the Scriptures

Download or read book An Address Delivered Before the Philorhetorian and Peithologian Societies of the Wesleyan University Literary Character of the Scriptures written by Alexander Hill Everett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

Book An Address Delivered Before the Philorhetorian and Peithologian Societies of the Wesleyan University  on the Literary Character of the Scriptures

Download or read book An Address Delivered Before the Philorhetorian and Peithologian Societies of the Wesleyan University on the Literary Character of the Scriptures written by Alexander Hill Everett and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Education  1622 1860

Download or read book American Education 1622 1860 written by and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1984 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE P

Download or read book ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE P written by Alexander Hill 1790-1847 Everett and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Man the Reformer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 2020-09-28
  • ISBN : 1465613145
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book Man the Reformer written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. President, and Gentlemen, I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer. I shall assume that the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind. Let it be granted, that our life, as we lead it, is common and mean; that some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society, that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books and in dim traditions; that prophets and poets, that beautiful and perfect men, we are not now, no, nor have even seen such; that some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us; that the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstasy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world. Grant all this, as we must, yet I suppose none of my auditors will deny that we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature. And further, I will not dissemble my hope, that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs, timidities, and limitations, and to be in his place a free and helpful man, a reformer, a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world like a footman or a spy, escaping by his nimbleness and apologies as many knocks as he can, but a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth, and not only go honorably himself, but make it easier for all who follow him, to go in honor and with benefit.

Book Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers

Download or read book Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Market Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Sellers
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1994-05-19
  • ISBN : 0199762422
  • Pages : 511 pages

Download or read book The Market Revolution written by Charles Sellers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-19 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.

Book Philosophy Americana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas R. Anderson
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 082322550X
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Philosophy Americana written by Douglas R. Anderson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called philosophicalis to be found.

Book Emerson s Literary Philosophy

Download or read book Emerson s Literary Philosophy written by Reza Hosseini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as “spiritual exercise”, arguing that the defining feature of his literary philosophy is the conviction that there is an inherent link between moral persuasion and literary excellence. Hosseini persuasively argues that the Emersonian project can be viewed as an extension of Socrates’ call for a return to the beginning of philosophy, to search for a way of revolutionizing our ways of seeing from within. Examining Emerson’s provocative style of writing, Hosseini contends that his prose is shaped by a desire to bring about psychagogia, or influencing the soul through the power of words. This book furthermore examines the evolving nature of Emerson’s thoughts on “scholarly action” and its implications, his religious temperament as an aesthetic experience of the world through wonder, and the reasons for a resounding acknowledgment of despair in his essay “Experience.” In the concluding chapter, Hosseini explores the depth of Emerson’s engagement with the classical Persian poets and argues that what we may call his “literary humanism” is informed by Persian Adab, exemplified in the writings of Rumi, Hafiz, and Saadi. Weaving together themes from Persian philosophy and Emersonian transcendentalism, Hosseini establishes Emerson’s way of seeing as refreshingly relevant, showing that the questions he tackled in his writings are as pressing today as they were in his time.

Book The Emerson Effect

Download or read book The Emerson Effect written by Christopher Newfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the political sensibility of America's middle class? Where did it come from? What kind of life does it hope for? Newfield finds a major source in the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and offers a radically revisionist account of his powerful influence on individualism and democracy in the United States. Emerson's thought encompassed the most important cultural and social changes of his time - a new urban street culture, early versions of the business corporation, experimental communes, the rise of women authors, new forms of labor, a less father-centered family, frontier wars with American Indians, Mexicans, and others, and the controversy over slavery. Locating him at the center not only of philosophical but of national developments, Newfield shows how Emerson taught the middle class to respond to these changes through a form of personal identity best termed "submissive individualism." Newfield identifies a previously unacknowledged connection between liberal and authoritarian impulses in Emerson's work and explores its significance in various domains: domestic life, the changing New England economy, theories of poetic language, homoerotic friendship, and racial hierarchy. This provocative reassessment of Emerson's writing suggests that American middle class culture encourages deference rather than independence. But it also suggests that a better understanding of Emerson will help us develop the stronger, alternative forms of personhood he often desired himself. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the development and the current limits of liberalism in America.

Book The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Download or read book The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emerson Centenary Essays

Download or read book Emerson Centenary Essays written by Joel Myerson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after Ralph Waldo Emer­son's death in Concord is an appropriate time to assess his life and writings. The eleven essays here presented, along with new documentary and manuscript material soon to be made available, will provide a fresh im­petus for subsequent studies of Emerson as man and writer. The first four essays trace Emerson's de­velopment through the publication of his first series of Essays in 1841: Evelyn Barish de­scribes Emerson's early illness and how his decision to deal with sickness influenced his philosophy; Wesley T. Mott shows the importance of the sermon "Christ Cruci­fied" to Emerson's intellectual development; Jerome Loving shows how Emerson's change in vocation and his change in philosophical outlook went hand in hand; Glen M. Johnson demonstrates how Emerson developed a sense of himself as a professional author. The next three essays cover the period from 1841 to 1844 and include David Robin­son's examination of The Method of Nature asmarking a crucial point in Emerson's life. Richard Lee Francis and David W. Hill show Emerson seeking his persona in Essays: Sec­ond Series and evaluate the significance of his eventual authorial voice. The subsequent essays range widely: San­ford E. Marovitz surveys and evaluates Emer­son's long-time interest in Shakespeare; Robert E. Burkholder discusses the response of the press to English Traits; Ronald A. Sudol shows that Emerson's reaction to technology is embodied in the poem, "The Adirondacs"; and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., concludes with a reminder that Emerson was, in precept and in life, a teacher.

Book The Riddle of Liberty

Download or read book The Riddle of Liberty written by Lou Ann Lange and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lectures and Biographical Sketches

Download or read book Lectures and Biographical Sketches written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Estimating Emerson

Download or read book Estimating Emerson written by David LaRocca and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 170 years of dynamic, profound, and enduring criticism on Emerson by some of world's most eminent and influential writers and thinkers.

Book New England Reformers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-06-23
  • ISBN : 9781721252336
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book New England Reformers written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England Reformers Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence." Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet" and "Experience." Together with "Nature," these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, a son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. He was named after his mother's brother Ralph and his father's great-grandmother Rebecca Waldo. Ralph Waldo was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood; the others were William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles. Three other children-Phebe, John Clarke, and Mary Caroline-died in childhood. Emerson was entirely of English ancestry, and his family had been in New England since the early colonial period. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.