| Description |
1321 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Library of America ; 15.
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| Note |
Spine title: Essays and lectures. |
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"Joel Porte wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume" -- Leaf ff. title page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes notes (pages 1307-1321) and chronology. |
| Contents |
Nature; addresses, and lectures -- Essays : first series -- Essays : second series -- Representative men -- English traits -- The conduct of life -- Uncollected prose. |
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Nature; addresses, and lectures: Introduction ; Nature ; Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; Discipline ; Idealism ; Spirit ; Prospects. Addresses: The American scholar : an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 ; An address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838 ; Literary ethics : an address to the Literary Societies in Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838 ; The method of nature : an address to the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841. Lectures: Man the reformer : a lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 ; Introductory lecture on the times : read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, Dec. 2., 1841 ; The conservative : a lecture read in the masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1842 ; The transcendentalist : a lecture read in the Mason Temple, Boston, January 1842 ; The young American : a lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 -- 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 ; Manners ; Gifts ; Nature ; Politics ; Nominalist and realist ; New England reformers : lecture at Armory Hall -- Representative men: Uses of great men ; Plato; or, the philosopher. Plato : new readings ; 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. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 19th century.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Porte, Joel.
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| Added Title |
Essays and lectures.
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Nature.
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Representative men.
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English traits.
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Conduct of life.
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| ISBN |
0940450151 |
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9780940450158 |
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