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A compact volume of lectures and sketches that interweaves philosophical essays with concise portraits of notable contemporaries. Topics range from dreams, character, and education to ethics, literary life, and historical reflection, presented in a dense, aphoristic prose that mixes moral inquiry with cultural observation. Several pieces consider the disposition and duties of intellectual life, while the biographical sketches illuminate individual temperaments and habits of mind, together offering a mosaic of ideas about personal integrity, artistic vocation, and the social forces that shape thought and character.

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Title: Lectures and biographical sketches

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Editor: James Elliot Cabot

Release date: April 23, 2025 [eBook #75942]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883

Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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LECTURES AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

BEING VOLUME X.

OF

EMERSON’S COMPLETE WORKS