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- noun Plural form of
transcendentalist .
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The error of the transcendentalists was their willingness to affirm the intuitive always over the historical.
Philocrites: 'Words are not the only language': Henry Whitney Bellows's view of scripture. 1997
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The private organ of the transcendentalists was the _Dial_, a quarterly magazine, published from 1840 to 1844, and edited by Emerson and
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The private organ of the transcendentalists was the _Dial_, a quarterly magazine, published from 1840 to 1844, and edited by Emerson and
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But if by pantheism is meant the doctrine that the underlying principle of the universe is matter or force, none of the transcendentalists was a pantheist.
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But if by pantheism is meant the doctrine that the underlying principle of the universe is matter or force, none of the transcendentalists was a pantheist.
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Wendell Phillips, one of those "transcendentalists" of Massachusetts of whom the country was to hear a great deal in the future, answered this question in his famous "grandeur-of-nations" oration of July 4, 1845.
Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd
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"The essential mistake of the transcendentalists is the taking for their guide the instincts of the soul instead of the inspirations of the Holy Spirit.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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"transcendentalists," as they were popularly styled, with whom these were often at the outset affiliated, were much influenced by contemporary French and German authors and speculations.
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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While stylistic parallels to Wordsworth's daffodils are evident throughout the novel, Greene's characters function with independence and resolution that bring the American transcendentalists - Emerson,
Bloodroot: Summary and book reviews of Bloodroot by Amy Greene. 2010
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My short take on Flower is that it reminds me instantly of American transcendentalists and the late 19th century symbolist movement in both poetry and painting.
Flower's Lawful, Logical Wind SVGL 2009
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