Aesthetic PapersElizabeth Peabody Cosimo, Inc., 1 nov. 2005 - 256 sidor The Editor wishes to assemble, upon the high aesthetic ground..., writers of different schools, -that the antagonistic views of Philosophy, of Individual and of Social Culture... may be brought together.-from "Prospectus"Intended as a periodical of the Transcendentalist movement, Aesthetic Papers published just one issue, in 1849, but what an issue it is. Featuring the first appearance in print of Thoreau's dramatically influential essay "Civil Disobedience," it also offered a selection of essays, criticism, and poetry from familiar names including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Parke Godwin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and J.J.G. Wilkinson. An important "lost" volume of the vigorous intellectualism of the mid-19th century; this is a treasure for today's readers.American activist ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY (1804-1894) was a tireless member of Massachusetts' Transcendentalist society, and was a sister-in-law to both author Nathaniel Hawthorne and educational reformer Horace Mann. Her battles encompassed the abolition of slavery, the rights of Native Americans and women, and the improvement of American education. As the founder of kindergarten in the United States and perhaps the first female publisher in America, she exerted a profound influence over the nation's public life and public institutions. |
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... things , the effects will long be visible in Eng- lish literature . Our American defect lies in the opposite extreme . Grave men gravely vaunt American productions in a way that , to an uninterested observer , must seem sadly absurd ...
... things , the effects will long be visible in Eng- lish literature . Our American defect lies in the opposite extreme . Grave men gravely vaunt American productions in a way that , to an uninterested observer , must seem sadly absurd ...
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... thing of every day , and to be criticised by every - day rules . It is perceived that form is not necessary to the transmission of thought by books , and all those modes of writing are adopted where its fetters may be avoided ; and ...
... thing of every day , and to be criticised by every - day rules . It is perceived that form is not necessary to the transmission of thought by books , and all those modes of writing are adopted where its fetters may be avoided ; and ...
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... thing from the lite- rary form , of which we have been speaking ; for , although all form may be said to have a body and a soul , an inward significance as well as an outward appearance , yet this out- ward appearance is its essential ...
... thing from the lite- rary form , of which we have been speaking ; for , although all form may be said to have a body and a soul , an inward significance as well as an outward appearance , yet this out- ward appearance is its essential ...
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... thing as creative criticism . The mind of Goethe was based on this principle . All the facts of his own experience , all knowledge of the characters of others , all the literature of the past , all the history and results of art , all ...
... thing as creative criticism . The mind of Goethe was based on this principle . All the facts of his own experience , all knowledge of the characters of others , all the literature of the past , all the history and results of art , all ...
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... thing new to supply its place . The French Revolution was a destructive criticism of royal government . When this flame ceased for want of fuel , France could find no alternative but military power . * Compare this with the results of ...
... thing new to supply its place . The French Revolution was a destructive criticism of royal government . When this flame ceased for want of fuel , France could find no alternative but military power . * Compare this with the results of ...
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Organization PARKE GODWIN | 50 |
The Dorian Measure with a Modern Application THE EDITOR | 64 |
Royal College of Surgeons London | 112 |
Language THE EDITOR | 189 |
Vegetation about Salem Mass | 224 |
A Spirits Reply | 245 |
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Sida 191 - I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Sida 190 - That government is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government i* best which governs not at all ; " and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Sida 200 - I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name, — if ten honest men only, — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.
Sida 200 - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less...
Sida 241 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary...
Sida 204 - I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics Charles Reid Metzger Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1968 |