An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Ralph Waldo Emerson [from American Monthly]

"Ralph Waldo Emerson [from American Monthly]." New York Saturday Press, August 15, 1865, 6-7.
Type
newspaper
Genre
review
Abstract

Emerson talents as an orator are not in his persuasiveness, but in his ability to move his lips while saying nothing at all. The reviewer remarks that he would have made a grand lawyer.

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