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Miscellanies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build your own house in the woods and the world looks new again. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature opens this gathering, moving through beauty, language, and discipline to argue that the outdoors is a teacher we have barely begun to read. Bold, quotable, and endlessly influential, it launched American nature writing. Step outside with the essayist who told a country to trust itself.
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22 chapters
- 1MISCELLANIES;
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3NATURE.
- 4INTRODUCTION.
- 5NATURE. CHAPTER I.
- 6CHAPTER II. COMMODITY.
- 7CHAPTER III. BEAUTY.
- 8CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE.
- 9CHAPTER V. DISCIPLINE.
- 10CHAPTER VI. IDEALISM.
- 11CHAPTER VII. SPIRIT.
- 12CHAPTER VIII. PROSPECTS.
- 13THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 31, 1837.
- 14AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, SUNDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1838.
- 15LITERARY ETHICS. AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, JULY 24, 1838.
- 16ORATION.
- 17THE METHOD OF NATURE. AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI, IN WATERVILLE COLLEGE, MAINE, AUGUST 11, 1841.
- 18MAN THE REFORMER. A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE MECHANICS’ APPRENTICES’ LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, BOSTON, JANUARY 25, 1841.
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