Representative Men
by Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803 - 1882)
A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. The six representatives are Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napolean and Goethe. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik)
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Representative Men:
04: III: Swedenborg, Or The Mystic ,
05: IV: Montaigne, Or, The Skeptic (Part 1) ,
06: IV: Montaigne, Or, The Skeptic (Part 2) ,
07: V: Shakspeare, Or, The Poet ,
08: VI: Napoleon, Or, The Man of the World ,
09: VII: Goethe, Or, The Writer