Aesthetic PapersElizabeth Peabody Cosimo, Inc., 1 nov 2005 - 256 páginas 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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... instinct , not only in respect to the different arts , but even in the different provinces of the same art . It seems as if the same principle which caused every noun or verb to be so rich in forms of expression , prevailed in making ...
... instinct , not only in respect to the different arts , but even in the different provinces of the same art . It seems as if the same principle which caused every noun or verb to be so rich in forms of expression , prevailed in making ...
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... instinct of a people is brought efficiently to bear upon the conduct of their rulers ; it is the charter of a people's liberties , not because its judgments are correct , but because , like the geese of the Capitol , it awakens men to ...
... instinct of a people is brought efficiently to bear upon the conduct of their rulers ; it is the charter of a people's liberties , not because its judgments are correct , but because , like the geese of the Capitol , it awakens men to ...
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... instinct of a people , uses the force delegated to him to constrain the nation in that direction . Our position is often the reverse of this . Our servants have understood and executed our sinister will , and the tardy criticism of our ...
... instinct of a people , uses the force delegated to him to constrain the nation in that direction . Our position is often the reverse of this . Our servants have understood and executed our sinister will , and the tardy criticism of our ...
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... instinct , through all these partial harmonies , learning by degrees to understand the universal nature of its desire and aim . The sentiment of unity , the strongest and deepest sentiment of which man is capable , the great affec- tion ...
... instinct , through all these partial harmonies , learning by degrees to understand the universal nature of its desire and aim . The sentiment of unity , the strongest and deepest sentiment of which man is capable , the great affec- tion ...
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... instinct ; and though a primary one , or we may say the very first , yet the appear- ance of the other instincts immediately modifies and controls this ; turns its energies into harmless , useful , and high courses , showing thereby ...
... instinct ; and though a primary one , or we may say the very first , yet the appear- ance of the other instincts immediately modifies and controls this ; turns its energies into harmless , useful , and high courses , showing thereby ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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?