Essays: First and Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 - 613 頁

A collection of 20 essays by Emerson including Self-Reliance, The OverSoul, Experience, and Nature

內容

• I: 1
• II: 43
• III: 91
• IV: 129
• V: 167
• VI: 189
• VII: 219
• VIII: 243
• IX: 265
• X: 299
• XI: 323
• XII: 349
• XIII: 1
• XIV: 43
• XV: 87
• XVI: 117
• XVII: 157
• XVIII: 167
• XIX: 197
• XX: 223
• XXI: 249

熱門章節

第 403 頁 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.

第 407 頁 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th

第 391 頁 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

第 45 頁 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

第 57 頁 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

第 57 頁 - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then?

第 46 頁 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

第 53 頁 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

第 67 頁 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

第 341 頁 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.

關於作者

Known primarily as the leader of the philosophical movement transcendentalism, which stresses the ties of humans to nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist, was born in Boston in 1803. From a long line of religious leaders, Emerson became the minister of the Second Church (Unitarian) in 1829. He left the church in 1832 because of profound differences in interpretation and doubts about church doctrine. He visited England and met with British writers and philosophers. It was during this first excursion abroad that Emerson formulated his ideas for Self-Reliance. He returned to the United States in 1833 and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. He began lecturing in Boston. His first book, Nature (1836), published anonymously, detailed his belief and has come to be regarded as his most significant original work on the essence of his philosophy of transcendentalism. The first volume of Essays (1841) contained some of Emerson's most popular works, including the renowned Self-Reliance. Emerson befriended and influenced a number of American authors including Henry David Thoreau. It was Emerson's practice of keeping a journal that inspired Thoreau to do the same and set the stage for Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond. Emerson married twice (his first wife Ellen died in 1831 of tuberculosis) and had four children (two boys and two girls) with his second wife, Lydia. His first born, Waldo, died at age six. Emerson died in Concord on April 27, 1882 at the age of 78 due to pneumonia and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

書目資訊

• 書名: Essays: First and Second Series; Essays第 1-2 卷, Ralph Waldo Emerson; First Series; Riverside library
• 作者: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 版本: 重印
• 出版者: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903
• 來源：: 密西根大學
• 已數位化: 2008年3月6日
• ISBN: 0395081254, 9780395081259
• 頁數: 613 頁