Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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- THE ENTIRE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
- CONTENTS:
- THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE
- THE AUTOCRAT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER I
- ALBUM VERSES.
- LATTER-DAY WARNINGS.
- CHAPTER II
- SUN AND SHADOW.
- THIS IS IT.
- HERE IT IS—WITH THE SLIGHT ALTERATIONS!
- CHAPTER III
- LE RAT DIES SALONS A LECTURE.
- THE OLD MAN DREAMS.
- CHAPTER IV
- "HUNC LAPIDEM POSUERUNT SOCII MOERENTES."
- THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.
- CHAPTER V
- "OUR SUMATRA CORRESPONDENCE.
- MARE RUBRUM.
- CHAPTER VI
- LES SOCIETES POLYPHYSIOPHILOSOPHIQUES.
- WHAT WE ALL THINK.
- CHAPTER VII
- THE PROFESSOR'S PAPER.
- THE LAST BLOSSOM.
- THE LIVING TEMPLE.
- CHAPTER VIII
- SPRING HAS COME.
- CHAPTER IX
- A GOOD TIME GOING!
- THE TWO ARMIES.
- CHAPTER X
- SYLVA NOVANGLICA.
- MY FIRST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
- MUSA.
- CHAPTER XI
- THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE: OR THE WONDERFUL "ONE-HOSS-SHAY." A LOGICAL STORY.
- AESTIVATION.
- CONTENTMENT.
- CHAPTER XII
- THE PROFESSOR UNDER CHLOROFORM.
- PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY: OR THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR. A MATHEMATICAL STORY.
- THE VOICELESS.
- THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
- I
- DE SAUTY
- BLUE-NOSE.
- II
- THE BOYS.
- III
- THE OPENING OF THE PIANO.
- IV
- V
- A MOTHER'S SECRET.
- VI
- VII
- ROBINSON OF LEYDEN.
- VIII
- SAINT ANTHONY THE REFORMER.
- IX
- MIDSUMMER.
- X
- THE BOOK OF THE THREE MAIDEN SISTERS.
- UNDER THE VIOLETS.
- XI
- HYMN OF TRUST.
- XII
- A SUN-DAY HYMN.
- THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- OVER THE TEACUPS
- PREFACE.
- OVER THE TEACUPS.
- I
- INTRODUCTION.
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII.
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- ELSIE VENNER
- PREFACE.
- A SECOND PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- ELSIE VENNER. CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- CHAPTER XX.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- CHAPTER XXXII. CONCLUSION.
- THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
- TO MY READERS.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII.
- NOTE BY THE FRIEND.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- CHAPTER XX.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- CHAPTER XXXVI CONCLUSION.
- A MORTAL ANTIPATHY
- PREFACE.
- A MORTAL ANTIPATHY.
- INTRODUCTION.
- THE NEW PORTFOLIO: FIRST OPENING. A MORTAL ANTIPATHY. I GETTING READY.
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- POSTSCRIPT: AFTER-GLIMPSES.
- MISS LURIDA VINCENT TO MRS. EUTHYMIA KIRKWOOD.
- DR. BUTTS TO MRS. EUTHYMIA KIRKWOOD.
- DR. BUTTS TO MRS. BUTTS.
- PAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE
- CONTENTS: BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER MY HUNT AFTER "THE CAPTAIN" THE INEVITABLE TRIAL CINDERS FROM ASHES THE PULPIT AND THE PEW
- BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER.
- MY HUNT AFTER "THE CAPTAIN."
- THE INEVITABLE TRIAL
- CINDERS FROM THE ASHES.
- THE PULPIT AND THE PEW.
- MEDICAL ESSAYS
- CONTENTS:
- PREFACE.
- A SECOND PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- HOMOEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS
- I
- II.
- THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER
- THE AFFIRMATIVE.
- THE NEGATIVE.
- III
- BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.
- SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHING.
- THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS.
- THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER
- MEDICAL LIBRARIES.
- SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS
- APPENDUM NOTES TO THE ADDRESS ON CURRENTS AND COUNTER CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.
- NOTE A.—
- NOTE B.—
- NOTE C.—
- JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.
- Volume I.
- NOTE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.
- Volume III.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV. CONCLUSION.—HIS CHARACTER.—HIS LABORS.—HIS REWARD.
- APPENDIX.
- B.
- C.
- E.
- G.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
- NOTE.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- Section 1. In the year 1833 Mr. Emerson visited Europe for the first time. A great change had come over his life, and he needed the relief which a corresponding change of outward circumstances might afford him. A brief account of this visit is prefixed to the volume entitled "English Traits." He took a short tour, in which he visited Sicily, Italy, and France, and, crossing from Boulogne, landed at the Tower Stairs in London. He finds nothing in his Diary to publish concerning visits to places. But he saw a number of distinguished persons, of whom he gives pleasant accounts, so singularly different in tone from the rough caricatures in which Carlyle vented his spleen and caprice, that one marvels how the two men could have talked ten minutes together, or would wonder, had not one been as imperturbable as the other was explosive. Horatio Greenough and Walter Savage Landor are the chief persons he speaks of as having met upon the Continent. Of these he reports various opinions as delivered in conversation. He mentions incidentally that he visited Professor Amici, who showed him his microscopes "magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters." Emerson hardly knew his privilege; he may have been the first American to look through an immersion lens with the famous Modena professor. Mr. Emerson says that his narrow and desultory reading had inspired him with the wish to see the faces of three or four writers, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, Carlyle. His accounts of his interviews with these distinguished persons are too condensed to admit of further abbreviation. Goethe and Scott, whom he would have liked to look upon, were dead; Wellington he saw at Westminster Abbey, at the funeral of Wilberforce. His impressions of each of the distinguished persons whom he visited should be looked at in the light of the general remark which, follows:—
- Section 2. In September, 1835, Emerson was married to Miss Lydia Jackson, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The wedding took place in the fine old mansion known as the Winslow House, Dr. Le Baron Russell and his sister standing up with the bridegroom and his bride. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson went to reside in the house in which he passed the rest of his life, and in which Mrs. Emerson and their daughter still reside. This is the "plain, square, wooden house," with horse-chestnut trees in the front yard, and evergreens around it, which has been so often described and figured. It is without pretensions, but not without an air of quiet dignity. A full and well-illustrated account of it and its arrangements and surroundings is given in "Poets' Homes," by Arthur Gilman and others, published by D. Lothrop & Company in 1879.
- Section 3. In the year 1836 there was published in Boston a little book of less than a hundred very small pages, entitled "Nature." It bore no name on its title-page, but was at once attributed to its real author, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- CHAPTER V.
- Section 1. On Sunday evening, July 15, 1838, Emerson delivered an Address before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, which caused a profound sensation in religious circles, and led to a controversy, in which Emerson had little more than the part of Patroclus when the Greeks and Trojans fought over his body. In its simplest and broadest statement this discourse was a plea for the individual consciousness as against all historical creeds, bibles, churches; for the soul as the supreme judge in spiritual matters.
- TO JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE.
- Section 2. Emerson's first volume of his collected Essays was published in 1841. In the reprint it contains the following Essays: History; Self-Reliance; Compensation; Spiritual Laws; Love; Friendship; Prudence; Heroism; The Over-Soul; Circles; Intellect; Art. "The Young American," which is now included in the volume, was not delivered until 1844.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- DR. LE BARON RUSSELL
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- CHAPTER XV.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- INDEX.
- OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTORY
- OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTORY.
- OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE
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- VIII.
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