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Em·er·son

(ĕm′ər-sən), Ralph Waldo 1803-1882.

American writer, philosopher, and central figure of transcendentalism. His poems, orations, and especially his essays, such as Nature (1836), are regarded as landmarks in the development of American thought and literary expression.

Em′er·so′ni·an (-sō′nē-ən) adj.

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Emerson

(ˈɛməsən)

(Biography) Ralph Waldo. (rælf ˈwɔːldəʊ). 1803–82, US poet, essayist, and transcendentalist

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Em•er•son

(ˈɛm ər sən)

n.

Ralph Waldo, 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.

Em`er•so′ni•an (-ˈsoʊ ni ən) adj.

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Emerson - United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson was talking about it in the smoking-room, and knowing what I did, I encouraged him to make the offer again.

Emerson that I accept his kind offer, and then conduct him to me, in order that I may thank him personally?"

Emerson scored a notable triumph to the delight of Mr.

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"Well, I must reflect with Emerson that it's being and not doing that matters," she continued.

"Perhaps it wasn't Emerson; but why shouldn't I read Emerson?" she asked, with a tinge of anxiety.

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Professor Emerson Sillerton was a thorn in the side of Newport society; and a thorn that could not be plucked out, for it grew on a venerable and venerated family tree.

The idea of the stud-farm and the brougham horse had germinated in Archer's mind on the very day when the Emerson Sillerton invitation had first been mentioned; but he had kept it to himself as if there were something clandestine in the plan, and discovery might prevent its execution.

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Then Edna sat in the library after dinner and read Emerson until she grew sleepy.

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I am perfectly sensible that Lowell and Emerson outvalue many of the poets and prophets I have given my heart to; I have read them with delight and with a deep sense of their greatness, and yet they have not been my life like those other, those lesser, men.

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Stewart, Thurlow Weed, Peter Cooper, Cyrus McCormick, Lucretia Mott, Bryant, Longfellow, and Emerson. Most old people could remember the running of the first railway train; people of middle age could remember the sending of the first telegraph message; and the children in the high schools remembered the laying of the first Atlantic Cable.

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Emerson's 'History of the English Language,' chapter

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"It is from Emerson, but I'm afraid you haven't quite grown up to it, Rebecca, and it is one of the things impossible to explain."