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The Founders of the Institute, and Its First President: An Address Delivered ... - Page 84
by Elbridge Smith - 1867 - 108 pages
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Works, Volume 10

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lectureroom of Harvard Hall. There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. He had an inspiration which did...
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Complete Works, Volume 10

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 484 pages
...and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lectureroom of Harvard Hall. There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. He had an inspiration which did...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Lectures and biographical sketches

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lectureroom of Harvard Hall. There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. He had an inspiration which did...
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Lectures and Biographical Sketches

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American prose literature - 1883 - 404 pages
...and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall. There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. He had an inspiration which did...
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The Genius and Character of Emerson: Lectures at the Concord School of ...

Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...Congress in 1825, and in due time became Governor of Massachusetts. Emerson says of him in 1820: — "There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. Ho had an inspiration which did...
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A History of American Literature: With a View to the Fundamental Principles ...

Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1896 - 508 pages
...wisdom, as if one of the old Greeks had wandered into the present ; indeed Emerson declares that " there was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens." In 1824, Everett was elected to...
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A History of American Literature: With a View to the Fundamental Principles ...

Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 496 pages
...his wisdom, as if one of the old Greeks had wandered into the present; indeed Emerson declares that "there was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens." In 1824, Everett was elected to...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...The effect which he produced on his return from Europe has been vividly described by Emerson : — "There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. He had an inspiration which did...
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An Historical and Biographical Introduction to Accompany the Dial ..., Volume 1

George Willis Cooke - American periodicals - 1902 - 224 pages
...and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall. There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. . . . The word that he spoke, and...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical ..., Volume 10

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 pages
...and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall. There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens. He had an inspiration which did...
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