A biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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ity School, he started his minister career as a guest speaker at local churches. " This speech was very important in Emerson's life, because he was able to mention his theory of Transcendentalism to an open audience. Three years after his graduation, he was appointed minister of the Second Church of Boston.

After Emerson left his career as a minister, he sailed to Europe, where he met many prominent European writers. At an oration at Harvard, he gave one of his most famous, if not his most famous speech, "The American Scholar. Intellectually Independent simply means that everyone should think for themselves, and not become a "parrot of other mens thinking. "

Emerson died on April 27, 1882, as a result of a small illness, he was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. " "Nature," was an essay on the theory of Transcendentalism, and his personal views of nature. Emerson's best known essays are: "The Over-Soul," "Compensation," and "Self-Reliance. Although Emerson mainly spoke at lyceums, most of his famous speeches, were the ones he gave while lecturing at universities. Among the places Emerson spoke were lyceums, and universities. A year later, he returned back to the United States, where he settled in Concord Massachusetts. Emerson's most popular written work, was probably "Nature. Because of personal doubts about the Church doctrine, he felt he could no longer administer the Lord's supper, he quit as minister of the Second Church of Boston.

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