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Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Representative Men
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ISBN/ASIN: 089875500X
Number of pages: 206

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Representative Men includes seven lectures on great men -- Plato, Swedenborg, Montaige, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. 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.

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