Word: emerson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemen, it is not alone these considerations which move me to express my gratitude for the honor which you have done me. I have had the extreme honor to have been admitted to the acquaintanceship of some of your most distinguished men, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Holmes. In my own country I have had even the greater honor of receiving under my roof such men as Prescott, Hawthorne, and Motley. And when I consider that through your grace I have been domiciled, so to speak, within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where...
...John Holmes Morrison, Edwin Wilson Morse, Herbert Floyd Willis Morse, John Archibald Murray, George William Nash, Henry Sylvester Nash, Samuel Newell Nelson, Edgar Hamilton Nichols, William John Oliver, Henry Blanchard Osgood, William Sigourney Otis, Henry Deeley Page, James Parker, Robert Fletcher Patterson, Daniel Edward Paullin, George Halsey Perley. Edward Emerson Phillips, William Magruder Phillips. John Pickering, George Miller Pinney, William Henry Potter, Robert Johnson Hare Powell, George Hyde Preston, George Sharp Raymer, Edward Prescott Reed. Herbert Howard Roberts. Warren Merton Robinson, Alfred Harri on Rogers, Barney Sachs, Thomas Jordan Sauzade. William Henry Schaefer. Samuel Shepherd. Paul Shorey. James Fulton Slade...
...Emerson, it is said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
Thus we are told that Hollis has been occupied by such distinguished men as Everett, Prescott, Emerson, C. F. Adams, Wendell Phillips, Thoreau, and B. R. Curtis...
...Fiske and Asa Gray, six each; A. S. Hill and C. F. Dunbar five each; H. C. Lodge and F. H. Hedge two each; and J. B. Greenough, J. P. Cooke, Jr., and N. S. Shaler, one each. Among the other contributors are Bancroft, Bryant, Lewis Cass, Daniel Webster, Emerson, Nathan Hale, Longfellow, and Howells...