CONTENTS
Essay by Emerson | 11 |
Preface | 53 |
By Different Methods Men Arrive at the Same End | 69 |
Of Sorrow | 78 |
Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us | 84 |
How the Soul Expends its Passions upon False Objects, when the True are Missed | 100 |
Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged ought to go out to Parley | 105 |
The Hour of Parley Dangerous | 111 |
That the Intention is Judge of our Actions | 116 |
Of Idleness | 119 |
Of Liars | 121 |
Of Quick or Slow Speech | 133 |
Of Prognostications | 137 |
Of Constancy | 146 |
Ceremony of the Interview of Kings | 151 |
Men are Punished for being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort without Reason | 155 |
Of the Punishment of Cowardice | 157 |
A Trait of some Ambassadors | 160 |
Of Fear | 168 |
That we are not to Judge of our Hour till after Death | 174 |
That to Philosophise is to learn to Die | 179 |
Of the Force of Imagination | 214 |
The Profit of one Man is the Loss of Another | 239 |
Of Custom, and of not Changing a Received Law | 240 |