Essays & lectures
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Print Book, English, ©1983
Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, New York, ©1983
Essay
1321 pages ; 21 cm.
9780940450158, 9780521261173, 0940450151, 0521261171
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Nature. Nature ; Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; Discipline ; Idealism ; Spirit ; Prospects
Addresses
Lectures
Essays, first series. History ; Self-reliance ; Compensation ; Spiritual Laws ; Love ; Friendship ; Prudence ; Heroism ; The Over-soul ; Circles ; Intellect ; Art
Essays, second series. The poet ; Experience ; Character ; Manners ; Gifts ; Nature ; Politics ; Nominalist and realist ; New England reformers : lecture at Amory Hall
Representative men. Uses of great men ; Plato, or, The philosopher ; Swedenborg, or, The mystic ; Montaigne, or, The skeptic ; Shakespeare, or, The poet ; Napoleon, or, The man of the world ; Goethe, or, The writer
English traits. First visit to England ; Voyage to England ; Land ; Race ; Ability ; Manners ; Truth ; Character ; Cockayne ; Wealth ; Aristocracy ; Universities ; Religion ; Literature ; The "Times" ; Stonehenge ; Personal ; Result ; Speech at Manchester
The conduct of life. Fate ; Power ; Wealth ; Culture ; Behavior ; Worship ; Considerations by the way ; Beauty ; Illusions
Uncollected prose. The Lord's supper ; Dial essays
Spine title: Essays and lectures
"Joel Porte wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Leaf ff. title page