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Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground-breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man."
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Society and solitude, twelve chapters
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Select
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson with Annotations
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Journals (10 Volumes)
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Selected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Framgång: essäer om självtillit och kreativitet
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Emāson Shi ichigo senkin
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Selected works
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson with Annotation
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Ėsse
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Framgång: essäer om självtillit och kreativitet
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Emerson's essays
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Essays: First Series
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Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894
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Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894
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Ralph Waldo Emerson papers
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Representative men; seven lectures
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Friendship
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Representative men: seven lectures
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Essays
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Letter from R.W. Emerson, to the Second Church and Society
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A historical discourse, delivered before the citizens of Concord, 12th September, 1835: on the second centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town
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An oration, delivered before the Phi beta kappa society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837
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An oration: delivered before the Phi beta kappa society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
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An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 ..
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The Dial
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The method of nature: an oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841
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Man the reformer: a lecture on some of the prominent features of the present age
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An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies
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An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st of August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies
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The emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies: An address delivered at Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844
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The young American: a lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association in Boston at the Odeon, Wednesday, February 7, 1844
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Essays: Second Series
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Orations, lectures, and addresses
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Esays: first series.
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Poems
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Essays, lectures, and orations
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Twelve Essays
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Nature, addresses, and lectures
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Lectures and biographical sketches
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The Boston book. Being specimens of metropolitan literature
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Representative men: seven lectures
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Essais de philosophie américaine
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Nature: an essay, to which are added orations, lectures, and addresses
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Kossuth in New England: a full account of the Hungarian governor's visit to Massachusetts; with his speeches, and the addresses that were made to him, carefully revised and corrected. With an appendix
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Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures
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Ralph Waldo Emerson über Goethe und Shakespeare
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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Essai sur la nature: aven un étude sur la vie et les oeuvres d'Emerson
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Orations, lectures and essays
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures ..
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Essays
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Essays
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Remarks on the character of George L. Stearns, at Medford, April 14, 1867
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May-Day: and Other Pieces
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May-day, and other pieces
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Prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essays
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Poems
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Poems
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Essays
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Culture, behavior, beuty: Books, art, eloquence. Power, wealth, illusions.
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I ..
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Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art, Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
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Culture, behavior, beuty
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The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes
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Selected poems
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Culture, Behavior, Beauty
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Neue Essays(letters and Social AIMS)
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Essays
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Essays
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The twenty essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: on self-reliance, history, spiritual laws, love, friendship, prudence, heroism, intellect, character, manners, gifts, politics &c., &c., &c.
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Essays, first series
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The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Letters and social aims
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Books, art, eloquence
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Miscellanies; embracing Nature, addresses
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Fortune of the Republic: Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30 ..
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Fortune of the republic: lecture delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878
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Power, wealth, illusions
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The preacher
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May-day, and Other Pieces: And Other Poems
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The Emerson Birthday Book
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Lectures And Biographical Sketches - Vol. 10
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Memoir Of Ralph Waldo Emerson (volume 2) - Vol. 14
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Conduct Of Life - Vol. 6
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Society And Solitude - Vol. 7
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Letters And Social Aims - Vol. 8
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Emerson's complete works
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Essays, Second Series
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Works
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures
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Miscellanies - Vol. 11
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- Waldo Ralph Emerson
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