Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and seer

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Philosopher and Seer AN ESTIMATE OF HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS In Prose and Verse

A. BRONSON ALCOTT

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CUPPLES & HURD, PUBLISHERS

By A BRONSON ALCOTT.

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SECOND EDITION.

Ὤσπερ γὰρ οἱ τὰ πεινῶντα θρέμματα θαλλὸν ἤ τινα καρπὸν προσείοντες ἄγουσι, οὺ ἐμοὶ λόγους οὔτω προτείνων ἐν βιβλίοις τήν τε Ἀττικὴν φαίνει περιάξειν ἅπασαν καὶ ὅποι ἂν ἄλλοσε βούλῃ.

Plato, Phædr. p. 230 D.

“For as men lead hungry creatures by holding out a green bough or an apple, so you, it would seem, might lead me about all Attica and wherever else you please, by holding toward me discourses out of your books.”

Plato.