Miscellanies

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s speeches and essays on religion, public affairs, reform and commemoration, with notes by Edward Waldo Emerson. The collection includes his tribute to Theodore Parker and addresses at the organization and a subsequent annual meeting of the Free Religious Association.

Project Gutenberg reading edition, released in 2023 from an undated Houghton, Mifflin and Company edition. Its copyright page lists 1878, 1883, 1904 and 1906; the file should therefore not be identified simply as a 1904 edition. Navigation follows the original contents and the editor’s notes. Project Gutenberg’s credits and licence are retained.

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Table of contents 62 entries

PREFACE
I. THE LORD’S SUPPER
II. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE AT CONCORD
III. LETTER TO PRESIDENT VAN BUREN
IV. EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
V. WAR
VI. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW—ADDRESS AT CONCORD
VII. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW—LECTURE AT NEW YORK
VIII. THE ASSAULT UPON MR. SUMNER
IX. SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS
X. JOHN BROWN—SPEECH AT BOSTON
XI. JOHN BROWN—SPEECH AT SALEM
XII. THEODORE PARKER
XIII. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
XIV. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
XV. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
XVI. HARVARD COMMEMORATION SPEECH
XVII. DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT IN CONCORD
XVIII. EDITORS’ ADDRESS
XIX. ADDRESS TO KOSSUTH
XX. WOMAN
XXI. CONSECRATION OF SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY
XXII. ROBERT BURNS
XXIII. SHAKSPEARE
XXIV. HUMBOLDT
XXV. WALTER SCOTT
XXVI. SPEECH AT BANQUET IN HONOR OF CHINESE EMBASSY
XXVII. REMARKS AT ORGANIZATION OF FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION
XXVIII. SPEECH AT SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION
XXIX. ADDRESS AT OPENING OF CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
XXX. THE FORTUNE OF THE REPUBLIC
NOTES
1. THE LORD’S SUPPER
2. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE AT CONCORD
3. LETTER TO PRESIDENT VAN BUREN
4. ADDRESS ON EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
5. WAR
6. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW, CONCORD, 1851
7. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW, NEW YORK, 1854
8. THE ASSAULT UPON MR. SUMNER
9. SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS
10. JOHN BROWN: SPEECH AT BOSTON
11. JOHN BROWN: SPEECH AT SALEM
12. THEODORE PARKER
13. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
14. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
15. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
16. HARVARD COMMEMORATION SPEECH
17. ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT IN CONCORD
18. EDITORS’ ADDRESS, MASSACHUSETTS QUARTERLY REVIEW
19. ADDRESS TO KOSSUTH
20. WOMAN
21. CONSECRATION OF SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY
22. ROBERT BURNS
23. SHAKSPEARE
24. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
25. WALTER SCOTT
26. SPEECH AT THE BANQUET IN HONOR OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY
27. REMARKS AT THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION
28. SPEECH AT THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION
29. ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
30. THE FORTUNE OF THE REPUBLIC