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Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he was not contented with the age he lived in, he firmly believed that it was better than all that had preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Optimism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mr. William Franklin Dana. Sever...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Optimism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mr. William Franklin Dana. Sever...
Bates College, Lewiston, Me. Sunday, June 21-Thursday, 25. Sunday, baccalaureate by Rev. Waldo Messaros; Monday, sophomore prize debate and junior exhibition; Tuesday, class day exercises; Wednesday, theological school anniversary, and alumni literary exercises; Thursday, commencement exercises...
...familiar 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...