Natural Abundance - format ePub

Platon définit la rhétorique comme étant l’art de gouverner l’esprit des hommes; cependant le but de l’éloquence c’est de modifier, peut-être en un discours d’une demi-heure, des convictions et des habitudes...

Vers la fin de l’année 1844, Emerson acquiert à Concord, dans l’État du Massachusetts, un terrain au bord d’un vaste étang. Cet étang, c’est Walden. Thoreau y vivra pendant deux ans, dans une cabane,...

La vie de Napoléon Bonaparte par sir Walter Scott a été accueillie avec un empressement, proportionné au talent incontesté de l’auteur, non moins qu’à la capacité et à la destinée merveilleuses de son...

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"Every great man is a unique". R.W Emerson told us that Self-confidence is always about independence : "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in...

THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato...

Ralph Waldo Emerson zeigt in »Vertraue Dir selbst!« die zentrale Voraussetzung für den Weg zum persönlichen Glück: Genau in sich hineinzuhören, die eigenen Überzeugungen zu erspüren und nichts anderes...

In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and advocate of social reforms. He was considered...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United States was still reeling from the effects of a calamitous financial collapse four years earlier. His positive...

A finely honed abridgement of Emerson's principal essays with an introduction that clarifies the essence of Emerson's ideas and establishes their relevance to our own troubled era. This is the first truly...

Aus dem Inhalt: Mich kümmert einzig, was ich zu tun habe, nicht was die Leute denken. Diese Regel, gleich schwer zu befolgen im wirklichen wie im geistigen Leben, macht den ganzen Unterschied zwischen...

In "Essays First Series" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, readers are treated to a collection of thoughtful and insightful essays that explore various aspects of life and human nature. Emerson's literary style...

This is one of the most complete collections of Emerson's poems. He, a leader in the Transcendentalist movement, was known for his inspirational and powerful lyrical works. This is the extended annotated...

Le texte qui suit témoigne d’une modernité surprenante. Son auteur, Ralph Waldo Emerson, y développe l’idée selon laquelle la confiance en soi-même, indispensable à l’épanouissement de chacun, est nécessairement...

"Société et solitude" est le dernier livre de Ralph Waldo Emerson, père du Transcendantalisme. Dans ce volume de douze essais tirés de ses célèbres conférences, il résume l’essence de sa vision du monde...

Aussi importante et symbolique aux États-Unis que les notions de liberté et d’égalité en France, la self-reliance renvoie non seulement à la confiance en soi mais aussi à l’autonomie de l’individu. L’âme...

100 citations de Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson reconnaît à chaque individu le besoin de richesse et sa légitimée lorsqu'elle provient d'un travail honnête dont les retombées profitent à l'ensemble de la société. Pour lui, la richesse s'acquiert...

« Emerson n’a pas à être présenté au public français. Depuis quelques années, les esprits las des systèmes se sont tournés vers le Penseur américain qui eut à un degré supérieur le sens de la vie. D’abord...

Livre-manifeste, source d’inspiration pour Henry David Thoreau, La Nature (1836) est au fondement du mouvement transcendantaliste qui éclot dans l’Amérique du XIXe siècle. S’y déploie une pensée poétique...

Dans La Nature, sa première œuvre, Emerson expose avec lyrisme les principes philosophiques qui dirigeront toute son œuvre : la cohérence intime de l’univers, la plénitude et l’harmonie de l’esprit individuel,...

Au cours de mes voyages, je me suis trouvé avec un humoriste qui avait chez lui un modelage de la Méduse de Rondanini, et qui m’assura que le nom sous lequel cette grande œuvre d’art figurait dans les...

« Essais choisis » est un recueil des plus beaux textes du philosophe américain R. W. Emerson. Il comporte : La confiance en soi, Société et Solitude, Le courage, Le Succès, La vieillesse, Lois spirituelles...

Précédé d’un portrait de l’auteur par Henry James, le présent recueil groupe cinq conférences prononcées par Ralph Waldo Emerson entre 1838 et 1844. On y retrouve la pensée puissante d’Emerson, à l’image...

À la fois moraliste et créateur d’une philosophie morale inédite, Emerson dénonce l’égoïsme qui nous envahit, la richesse et l’ambition qui sans cesse nous sollicitent. Il interpelle l’individu et lui...

De même qu’une activité incessante anime le monde, pense Ralph Waldo Emerson, le grand philosophe américain, la vie de l’homme devrait être disponible à ce qui arrive. Aucune autorité, de nature religieuse...

« Ce qu'ils savent, ils le savent pour nous. Avec chaque nouvel esprit, transpire un nouveau secret de la nature. Et la Bible ne pourra être refermée tant que le dernier grand homme ne sera pas né. »...

« Au cours de mes voyages, je me suis trouvé avec un humoriste qui avait chez lui un modelage de la Méduse de Rondanini, et qui m’assura que le nom sous lequel cette grande œuvre d’art figurait dans les...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie....

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That...

In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds...

The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah”, and the name of His Son, “Jesus”, in whom...