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As the greatest lessons of Nature through the universe are perhaps the lessons of variety and freedom, the same present the greatest lessons also in New World politics and progress. If a man were ask'd, for instance, the distinctive points contrasting m ...

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A Plea for Captain John Brown  is an essay by  Henry David Thoreau . It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at  Concord, Massachusetts  on  October 30 , 1859 , two weeks a ...

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PREFATORY NOTE. Of the following studies in Emerson's poetry, as origi nally printed, my friends Charles Eliot Norton, William Rounseville Alger, and Charles Molloy, all veteran students of their revered friend's verse, and among the best living in ...

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" Alexander Nehamas (born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University . He works on Greek philosophy , aesthetics , Nietzsche , Foucault , and ...

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" The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist ) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Jou ...

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The pathos of death is this, that when the days of one's life are ended, those days that were so crowded with business and felt so heavy in their passing, what remains of one in memory should usually be so slight a thing. The phantom of an attitude, the ...

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"Paradise is under the shadow of swords." Mahomet Ruby wine is drunk by knaves, Sugar spends to fatten slaves, Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons; Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotte ...

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" Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne ; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nat ...

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"Self-Reliance is an essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson . It was first published in his 1841 collection, Essays: First Series. It contains the most solid statement of one of ...

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" Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing suc ...

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