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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist,...
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    The Ralph Waldo Emerson House is a house museum located at 18 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts, and a National Historic Landmark for its associations...
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    Self-Reliance (category Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
    an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent...
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  • Moody Emerson (August 23, 1774 – May 1, 1863) was an American letter writer and diarist. She was known not only as her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson's "earliest...
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    and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children. An intellectual, she was involved...
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    was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian Jackson Emerson, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1866...
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson School may refer to: Ralph Waldo Emerson School (Gary, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Lake County, Indiana Ralph Waldo Emerson Indianapolis...
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  • personal Ralph Waldo Emerson letters and other documents for educational purposes. He was part of the Emerson family, and was Ralph Waldo Emerson's last surviving...
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    which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule." Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay Old Age, included in the collection Society and...
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  • The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is a non-fiction literary award given by the Phi Beta Kappa society, the oldest academic society of the United States, for...
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    a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism...
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    The American Scholar (category Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
    "The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College at the First Parish...
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American philosopher and essayist. Ralph Emerson may also refer to: Ralph Emerson (theologian) (1787–1863), American...
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    is a phrase that may have originated, in a different form, with Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is unknown who wrote the phrase as it was popularized. The phrase...
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    Concord Hymn (category Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
    Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord...
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    Transparent eyeball (category Ralph Waldo Emerson)
    philosophical metaphor originated by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his essay Nature, the metaphor stands for a view of life that...
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    Retrieved 16 April 2018. Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1909). Edward Waldo Emerson; Waldo Emerson Forbes (eds.). Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820–1822. Vol. II...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert (January 17, 1882 – July 30, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, son of George Gilmore Gilbert. Born in Taylorsville...
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    enough to cover one's basic needs. Thoreau's friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, criticised the division of labour in his "The American Scholar"...
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    near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations...
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  • "Circles" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay consists of a philosophical view of the vast array of circles one may...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson Community Charter School (formerly Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School and commonly referred to as Emerson) is a charter middle school...
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    The Carlyle–Emerson correspondence is a series of letters written between Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) from 14 May 1834...
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones Sr. (August 6, 1905 – April 9, 1982), known as Prez Jones, was an American educator and administrator. He served as the second...
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  • Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher...
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    Charles II of England in the long poem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory of his son. In written works: Countee...
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  • Emerson Middle School may refer to the following schools in the United States: Emerson Community Charter School, formerly Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School...
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    well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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    developed in Concord during the mid-19th century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's circle included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Henry...
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  • popular works, including those of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. Somerset Maugham, and Jonathan Swift. "Call a spade a spade"...
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