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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... religious . The feeling expressed is of far greater im- portance than the vehicle in which it is conveyed . The practical portion of early art is conventional : the spiritual is profoundly significant , confined in its range , narrow ...
... religious . The feeling expressed is of far greater im- portance than the vehicle in which it is conveyed . The practical portion of early art is conventional : the spiritual is profoundly significant , confined in its range , narrow ...
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... religious belief in the audience ; so that , whilst they viewed the author as a man , they saw something divine ... religion succeeded the poetical theology of the Greeks . This new religion also revealed a poetic side , which was ...
... religious belief in the audience ; so that , whilst they viewed the author as a man , they saw something divine ... religion succeeded the poetical theology of the Greeks . This new religion also revealed a poetic side , which was ...
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... religious and festive observances of a people of primitive manners and high intellectual tendencies , among whom , owing to the absence of books , and the mechanical and other obstacles in the way of communication by writing , the ...
... religious and festive observances of a people of primitive manners and high intellectual tendencies , among whom , owing to the absence of books , and the mechanical and other obstacles in the way of communication by writing , the ...
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... religious respect and awe , and afterwards on habit , and the perception of a propriety and beauty in such natural promptings of the national genius , as no after - thought or higher culture is ever able to improve upon . They have in ...
... religious respect and awe , and afterwards on habit , and the perception of a propriety and beauty in such natural promptings of the national genius , as no after - thought or higher culture is ever able to improve upon . They have in ...
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... religion and history , were perpetu- ally undergoing this process in his mind . At each success- ively new point of ... religious than on literary action ; viz . that , while the critical spirit is always busy in pulling to pieces , the ...
... religion and history , were perpetu- ally undergoing this process in his mind . At each success- ively new point of ... religious than on literary action ; viz . that , while the critical spirit is always busy in pulling to pieces , the ...
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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?