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Representative men [electronic resource] : seven lectures

by: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Publication date: 2009

Topics: Plato, Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, Biography

Publisher: Waiheke Island : Floating Press

Collection: brighamyounguniversityhawaii; americana

Contributor: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library

Language: English

"First published in 1850"--T.p. verso

In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his "Representative Men."