Traits of Representative Men (Classic Reprint)

Traits of Representative Men (Classic Reprint)
Author: George W. Bungay
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2018-01-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780483053953

Excerpt from Traits of Representative Men This is not a book of biography, but of pen and pen cil pictures, and however inartistic they may be, the Writer hopes the lesson they are intended to convey will be of some little service, especially to the young. We are looking for the coming man. Has he come? Is he in our schools, in our workshops, in our ware houses, in public life? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

General Catalogue

General Catalogue
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1916
Genre: Publishers' catalogs
ISBN:

Representative Men

Representative Men
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 030743169X

Introduction by Brenda Wineapple In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative Men”: Plato, in whose writings are contained “the culture of nations”; Emanuel Swedenborg, a “rich discoverer” who strove to unite the scientific and spiritual planes; Michel de Montaigne, “the frankest and honestest of all writers”; William Shakespeare, who “wrote the text of modern life”; Napoleon Bonaparte, who had the “virtues and vices” of common men writ large; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who “in conversation, in calamity…finds new materials.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic reflects the author’s corrections for an 1876 reprinting.