Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Emerson. Fifty pages of prose, (earlier works preferred...
...which would, in this way, become far more comprehensive than they have been in past years. The study of the authors would not be so limited, nor so cursory, if a more extended plan were pursued, than at present. Any course that attempts to give even general idea of Emerson one week, and Carlyle the next can only fail to accomplish its purpose. No cast iron list of ten writers can give any idea of their literary periods when the study of the list is to be finished in ten weeks. If the list admitted additions, the work...
...with as the pretty folk lore of Hmoer or the coarse buffooneries of Aristophanes. Certain minds could better be introduced to these various literatures through translations, the use of which has been recommended both by precept and by example even by so great a thinker as Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Emerson's son, Dr. Edward W. Emerson, who has charge of his father's literary and other effects, is seeking to obtain, as a fitting monument to be placed over the great philosopher's grave, a mass of hard white quartz, with rage sea-green beryls embedded in it. He has men at work in New Hampshire, trying to find what he wants...
...Emerson said to his daughter who wrote asking him if she should study greek, botany or metaphysics, that it made no difference what she studied; the question was with whom she studied. There is an accurate perception of the relation of the teacher to his work expressed in this remark. The true teacher is a personal force that acts upon the pupil in a thousand ways not made manifest through the daily lessons.-[Amer. Queen...