Representative Men
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near new condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight without dust jacket as published.
- ISBN 10
- 0934710023
- ISBN 13
- 9780934710022
- Seller
-
Baldwin City, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
From the book:IT IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet. Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors. We call our children and our lands by their names. Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- J. Hood, Booksellers, inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201627
- Title
- Representative Men
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0934710023
- ISBN 13
- 9780934710022
- Publisher
- Joseph Simon
- Place of Publication
- [n.p.]
- Date Published
- 1980
Terms of Sale
J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
Payment with order, credit cards accepted (VISA, MC, Discover), personal checks on USA banks, money orders in US funds. Libraries and educational institutions will be invoiced upon request. Returns accepted within 30 days. Unless the book is clearly not as described, refund is for the price of the book only.
About the Seller
J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
About J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...