# Lectures and biographical sketches

Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75942

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Lectures+and+biographical+sketches+Emerson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

OF the pieces included in this volume the following, namely, those from the “Dial,” “Character,” “Plutarch,” and the biographical sketches of Dr. Ripley, of Mr. Hoar, and of Henry Thoreau, were printed by Mr. Emerson before I took any part in the arrangement of his papers. The rest, except the sketch of Miss Mary Emerson, I got ready for his use in readings to his friends or to a limited public. He had given up the regular practice of lecturing, but would sometimes, upon special request, read a paper that had been prepared for him from his manuscripts, in the manner described in the preface to “Letters and Social Aims,”--some former lecture serving as a nucleus for the new. Some of these...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-and-biographical-sketches-75942/chapters/25/index.md)