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NATURE

THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION bei

THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRI

AUGUST 31, 1837

AN ADDRESS TO THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVI
COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JULY 15, 1838,

LITERARY ETHICS. AN ADDRESS TO THE LITE

SOCIETIES IN DARTMOUTH College, July 24, 183

THE METHOD OF NATURE.

AN ADDRESS TO

SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI, IN WATERVILLE
LEGE, MAINE, AUGUST 11, 1841

MAN THE REFORMER. A LECTURE READ BE

THE MECHANICS' APPRENTICES' LIBRARY Ass

TION, BOSTON, January 25, 1841

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON THE TIMES. I
IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE, Boston, Dec. 2, 184

THE TRANSCENDENTALIST. A LECTUre read in THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTon, January, 1842.

THE YOUNG AMERICAN. A LECTURE READ TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844

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NATURE.

A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form