Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His TimeArgues Emerson's representatives both as an American writer of his time and as a comprehensive human spirit. Emerson appears here in all his vital contradictions. |
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... sense of purpose and fierce determination to vindi- cate that purpose . Though his intention is to realize a visionary East , he has paradoxically convinced himself , as Thoreau would say , that " the farthest west is but the farthest ...
... sense of purpose and fierce determination to vindi- cate that purpose . Though his intention is to realize a visionary East , he has paradoxically convinced himself , as Thoreau would say , that " the farthest west is but the farthest ...
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... sense of being singled out for a special destiny that his own fears and failings might keep him from achieving , Emerson meditated just before his nine- teenth birthday on his delayed maturity : In twelve days I shall be nineteen years ...
... sense of being singled out for a special destiny that his own fears and failings might keep him from achieving , Emerson meditated just before his nine- teenth birthday on his delayed maturity : In twelve days I shall be nineteen years ...
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... sense of ineptitude . Two years later , on the eve of becoming " legally a man " ( Emerson's own emphasis ; JMN , II , 237 ) , he would complain of his weak- ness , shame , and want of confidence , saying , " in my frequent humiliation ...
... sense of ineptitude . Two years later , on the eve of becoming " legally a man " ( Emerson's own emphasis ; JMN , II , 237 ) , he would complain of his weak- ness , shame , and want of confidence , saying , " in my frequent humiliation ...
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Hagiography | 3 |
Henry Jamess Fine Adumbration | 10 |
Ultimate Puritanism | 16 |
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