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From the course of lectures on “Human Life,” read in Boston, 1839-40. Published in the North American Review, 1877.

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Goethe, Wahrheit and Dichtung, Book xx.

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Heraclitus.

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First read as a lecture—in England—in 1848; here printed with additions from other papers.

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Reprinted from the North American Review, No. 125, 1877.

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Reprinted from the North American Review of April, 1866.

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Reprinted from the Century of February, 1882.

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Reprinted from the North American Review, of May, 1878.

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Originally written as a parlor lecture to some Divinity students, in 1867; afterwards enlarged from earlier writings, and read in its present form at the Divinity Chapel, Cambridge, May 5th, 1879. Reprinted from the Unitarian Review for January, 1880.

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This paper was originally printed as an introduction to Plutarch's Morals, edited by Professor William W. Goodwin, and published, in 1871, by Messrs. Little, Brown Co, through whose courtesy it is included in this edition.

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The Dial, vol. iii., p. 100.

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This sketch was written for the Social Circle, a club in Concord now more than a century old, and said to be the lineal descendant of the Committee of Safety in the Revolution. Mr. Emerson was a member for many years and greatly valued its weekly evening meetings, held, during the winter, at the houses of the members. After the death of Dr. Ripley, an early member and connected with him by marriage, Mr. Emerson was asked to prepare the customary Memoir for the Club Book.

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Rev. Joseph Emerson.

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Aunt of Mr. Emerson, and a potent influence on the lives of him and his brothers. This paper was read before the “Woman's Club,” in Boston, in 1869, under the title “Amita,” which was also the original superscription of the “Nun's Aspiration,” in his Poems; a rendering into verse of a passage in Miss Emerson's diary. Part of this poem forms the motto of this chapter.

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Written on the 4th Nov., 1856, the day when Mr. Buchanan was chosen President of the United States. Reprinted from Putnam's Magazine.

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Part of this paper was the Address delivered by Mr. Emerson at the funeral of Mr. Thoreau, in May, 1862. In the following summer it was enlarged and printed in the “Atlantic Monthly” in its present form.

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Walden: p. 20.

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From a letter written soon after Mr. Emerson's visit to Carlyle in 1848. Read before the Massachusetts Historical Society at their meeting after the death of Carlyle, February, 1881. Published in their Proceedings, and also in “Scribner's Magazine,” May, 1881.

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Mr. Emerson paid this tribute to the nobility of character, and eminent services to the republic, of his friend, Major George L. Stearns, at his funeral at Medford, on the 18th of April, 1867.