The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

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University of Missouri Press, 1989 - Religion - 432 pages

Volume 2 includes a detailed chronology of the events in Emerson's life during the months between July 1829 and October 1830. Explanatory footnotes, textual endnotes, and a comprehensive index further add to this significant contribution to our understanding of one of America's foremost thinkers.

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Contents

SERMON L
1
SERMON LXXXI
2
July 1829 to October 1830
7
SERMON XLIV
20
SERMON XLVI
35
SERMON XLIX
48
19
56
12
62
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings and not one of them
138
I will make thee ruler over many
151
SERMON LXX
162
Now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know
176
He taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes
192
16
206
20
216
8
232

SERMON LIII
72
If our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this
87
SERMON LIX
102
But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his son made of
108
Be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing
124
beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your
246
For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his
263
Index 407
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Page xi - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore : ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page x - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page xi - Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth : but I have called you friends ; for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you.
Page x - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet ; and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

About the author (1989)

Known primarily as the leader of the philosophical movement transcendentalism, which stresses the ties of humans to nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist, was born in Boston in 1803. From a long line of religious leaders, Emerson became the minister of the Second Church (Unitarian) in 1829. He left the church in 1832 because of profound differences in interpretation and doubts about church doctrine. He visited England and met with British writers and philosophers. It was during this first excursion abroad that Emerson formulated his ideas for Self-Reliance. He returned to the United States in 1833 and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. He began lecturing in Boston. His first book, Nature (1836), published anonymously, detailed his belief and has come to be regarded as his most significant original work on the essence of his philosophy of transcendentalism. The first volume of Essays (1841) contained some of Emerson's most popular works, including the renowned Self-Reliance. Emerson befriended and influenced a number of American authors including Henry David Thoreau. It was Emerson's practice of keeping a journal that inspired Thoreau to do the same and set the stage for Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond. Emerson married twice (his first wife Ellen died in 1831 of tuberculosis) and had four children (two boys and two girls) with his second wife, Lydia. His first born, Waldo, died at age six. Emerson died in Concord on April 27, 1882 at the age of 78 due to pneumonia and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

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