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" His relation to us is not that of one of those personages; yet it is a relation of, I think, even superior importance. His relation to us is more like that of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker;... "
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 154
1903
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 50

English periodicals - 1884 - 506 pages
...ground. I have given up to envious Time as much of Emerson as Time can fairly expect ever to obtain. We have not in Emerson a great poet, a great writer,...gives them to us ; and the man with the talent so to systematise them would be less impressive than Emerson. They do very well as they now stand — like...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 50

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...envious Time as much of Emerson as Time can fairly expect ever to obtain. We have not in Emerson a gr6at poet, a great writer, a great philosophymaker. His...gives them to us ; and the man with the talent so to systematise them would be less im-pressive than Emerson. They do very well as they now stand — like...
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Discourses in America, Issue 13

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1885 - 234 pages
...Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philo- j sophy-maker; he is the friend and aider of those who would live...gives them to us ; and the man with the talent so to systematise them would be less impressive than Emerson. They do very well as they now stand;—like...
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Discourses in America

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1896 - 236 pages
...are necessary for this purpose he takes ; but he does not combine them into a system, or pre!l sent them as a regular philosophy. Combined in a system...gives them to us ; and the man with the talent so to systematise them would be less impressive than Emerson. They do very well as they now stand; — like...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1898 - 458 pages
...Emerson is the same. He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. All__the__points in thinking which are necessary for this purpose he...not combine them into a system, or present them as a 10 regular philosophy. Combined in a system by a man with the requisite talent for this kind of thing,...
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A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules ...

Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1901 - 520 pages
...Concord began in 1835, and he lived there until his death, which occurred on the 27th of April, 1882. "We have not in Emerson a great poet, a great writer,...would be less useful than as Emerson gives them to us. . . . As Wordsworth's poetry is, in my judgment, the most important work done in verse, in our language,...
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A Multitude of Counsellors: Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts and Rules ...

Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1901 - 518 pages
...are necessary for this purpose he takes; but he does not comhine them into a system, or present-them as a regular philosophy. Combined in a system by a...would be less useful than as Emerson gives them to us. . . . As Wordsworth's poetry is, in my judgment, the most important work done in verse, in our language,...
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The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume 4

Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...ground. I have given up to envious Time as much of Emerson as Time can fairly expect ever to obtain. We have not in Emerson a great poet, a great writer,...gives them to us ; and the man with the talent so to systematise them would be less impressive than Emerson. They do very well as they now stand ; — like...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 20

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marcua Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live...as Emerson gives them to us; and the man with the 83.16 8337 talent so to systematize them would be less impressive than Emerson. They do very well as...
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1875-1890

Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...writer, a great philosophymaker. His relation to us is not that of one of these personages; yet is it a relation of, I think, even superior importance....gives them to us; and the man with the talent so to systemise them would be less impressive than Emerson. — ARNOLD, MATTHEW, 1884, Emerson, Macmillan's...
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