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Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and seer

an estimate of his character and genius in prose and verse

Author: Amos Bronson Alcott

Release date: June 14, 2025 [eBook #76296]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: Cupples & Hurd, Publishers, 1882

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[Emerson]
[Emerson]

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Philosopher and Seer
AN ESTIMATE OF
HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS
In Prose and Verse

BY
A. BRONSON ALCOTT
ILLUSTRATED
BOSTON
CUPPLES & HURD, PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1882,
By A BRONSON ALCOTT.
Copyright, 1888,
By CUPPLES & HURD.
All rights reserved.
SECOND EDITION.

Ὤσπερ γὰρ οἱ τὰ πεινῶντα θρέμματα θαλλὸν ἤ τινα καρπὸν προσείοντες ἄγουσι, οὺ ἐμοὶ λόγους οὔτω προτείνων ἐν βιβλίοις τήν τε Ἀττικὴν φαίνει περιάξειν ἅπασαν καὶ ὅποι ἂν ἄλλοσε βούλῃ.

Plato, Phædr. p. 230 D.

“For as men lead hungry creatures by holding out a green bough or an apple, so you, it would seem, might lead me about all Attica and wherever else you please, by holding toward me discourses out of your books.”

Plato.