In his 1842 lecture " The Transcendentalist ", Emerson suggested that the goal of a purely transcendental outlook on life was impossible to attain in practice:

In the episode " A Wiser Heart ", Laura attends an 1885 lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Emerson actually died in 1882.

Luminaries like Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered talks and readings in the main lecture hall ( now the architecturally restructured Sir Paul McCartney Auditorium of LIPA ).

Allmusic refers to Emerson as " perhaps the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history ".

Sir James Emerson Tennent refers to the Portuguese conduct in Sri Lanka in these terms -

In the later books Amelia refers to Emerson as " the greatest Egyptologist of this or any other age.

The name ' Eminox ' is derived from the initials of two founders, Norman Emerson and David Milles, and ' Inox ' which refers to " stainless steel ".

In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ), an ex-minister, published a startling nonfiction work called Nature, in which he claimed it was possible to dispense with organized religion and reach a lofty spiritual state by studying and responding to the natural world.

"... Emerson opposes on principle the reliance on social structures ( civil, religious ) precisely because through them the individual approaches the divine second hand, mediated by the once original experience of a genius from another age: " An institution ," as he explains, " is the lengthened shadow of one man.

The experience inspired Emerson in 1845 to write the poem, Monadnoc.

A supporter of Alcott's philosophies, Emerson offered to help with his writing, which proved a difficult task.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

However, Atari started to sue its competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements and Emerson was left with thousands of manufactured games that could no longer be sold.

* In addition, in 1974, Greg Lake ( of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ) wrote and recorded the song, " I Believe In Father Christmas ", which was released as a single in 1975.

The wave feature is another prominent design, which uses a part of the blade that protrudes outward to catch on one's pocket as it is drawn, thus opening the blade ; this was patented by Ernest Emerson and is not only used on many of the Emerson knives, but also on knives produced by Spyderco and Cold Steel as well.

By the 19th century the philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche could access the Indian scriptures for discussion of the doctrine of reincarnation, which recommended itself to the American Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson and was adapted by Francis Bowen into Christian Metempsychosis.

In Philosophical Explanations ( 1981 ), which received the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Nozick provided novel accounts of knowledge, free will, personal identity, the nature of value, and the meaning of life.

Irish historian James Emerson Tennent theorised Galle, a southern city in Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish, from which King Solomon is said to have drawn ivory, peacocks and other valuables.

In a speech delivered at Salem, Mass., on January 6, 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the weak and defenseless and declares that " Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his picture and trace his adventurous career ".

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

In 1995, Steinway Musical Properties, parent company of Steinway, merged with the Selmer Company to form Steinway Musical Instruments, which acquired the flute manufacturer Emerson in 1997, then piano keyboard maker Kluge in 1998, and the Steinway Hall in 1999.

Asia's set included only " An Extraordinary Life " from Phoenix, the rest of the songs coming from the first two albums plus one cover each from The Buggles (" Video Killed the Radio Star " with Wetton on lead vocals and Downes on vocoder ), King Crimson (" The Court of the Crimson King ", which was recorded by a previous incarnation of that band with Greg Lake on lead vocals ) and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (" Fanfare for the Common Man ").

By 1971, with the releases Pictures at an Exhibition and Trilogy, Emerson began to fully credit classical composers, Modest Mussorgsky for the piano piece which inspired the first album, and Aaron Copland for " Hoedown " on the second.

In 1990 Emerson toured with The Best, a short-lived supergroup which also included John Entwistle, Joe Walsh, Jeff " Skunk " Baxter and Simon Phillips.

In 2004, Emerson published his autobiography entitled Pictures of an Exhibitionist, which dealt with his entire career, particularly focusing on his early days with The Nice, and his nearly career-ending nerve-graft surgery in 1993.

Emerson toured with Greg Lake in the US and Canada during spring of 2010, doing a series of " An Intimate Evening with Emerson and Lake " duo shows in which they performed newly arranged versions of the music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Nice, and King Crimson as well as Emerson's new original composition.

Although the Hammond L-100 with its shorter manuals is considered a " poor man's " Hammond, Emerson not only played much of the early Nice music on his L-100, but also made good use of some of its unique features which his bigger Hammond C-3 does not provide.

Emerson also used a prototype polyphonic synthesiser produced by Moog, which was the test bed for the Moog Polymoog polyphonic synthesiser.

As the technology of electronic keyboard instruments became more sophisticated, Emerson was quick to adopt new instruments, such as the Yamaha GX1 polyphonic synthesiser, one of which can be seen on the video promoting " Fanfare for the Common Man ".

Emerson later bought a 2nd GX-1 from John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, to use to repair his GX-1, which was damaged by a tractor crash into Emerson's home studio.

At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini ( a 2600 clone ), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey < sup > 2 </ sup >, the Mattel Intellivision ( and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II ), the Sears Tele-Games systems ( which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones ), the Tandyvision ( an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack ), and the Vectrex.

His work inspired the New England Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who declared in 1843 that, in reading Proclus, " I am filled with hilarity & spring, my heart dances, my sight is quickened, I behold shining relations between all beings, and am impelled to write and almost to sing.

At least some of his books are characterized by harsh criticism of almost everyone involved in textual criticism, such as Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ), Archibald Thomas Robertson ( 1863 – 1934 ), Charles Haddon Spurgeon ( 1834 – 1892 ) with the likes of Julius Wellhausen ( 1844 – 1918 ) and Harry Emerson Fosdick ( 1878 – 1969 ).

Though Emerson College has moved to various locations within the city of Boston, the appointment of Allen E. Koenig ( the ninth president of Emerson College ) almost took the college completely outside of Boston.

Emerson misunderstood Ginastera's meaning: Ginastera spoke almost no English and meant that their interpretation was frightening, which had been his intent when he wrote it ; Emerson, being British, took it to mean " awful ".

Ralph Waldo Emerson said of the Locofocos: “ The new race is stiff, heady, and rebellious ; they are fanatics in freedom ; they hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks, hierarchies, governors, yea, almost laws .”

In previous years the Dance Arena has hosted almost all of the most influential world DJ's and producers such as: Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Sharam, Francois K, Tiga, Axwell, Laurent Garnier, John Digweed, Darren Emerson, Danny Tenaglia, Frankie Knuckles, Eric Prydz, Eric Morillo, Green Velvet, Richie Hawtin, Dubfire, James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli, Adam Beyer, Steve Lawler, Lee Burridge, David Morales, Sander Kleinenberg, Marshall Jefferson, Roger Sanchez, Timo Maas, LTJ Bukem, Felix The Housecat, David Guetta etc.

" The band almost broke up over the issue, Emerson telling Lake " Take it or leave it.

Emerson celebrates “ the wonderful expressiveness of the human body ” ( 154 ) while especially emphasizing the eyes —“ another self ” ( 156 )— as being the most universally understood, hence highly revealing ( and almost erotic ), means of interpersonal exchange.

Echoing Emerson, he believed that every individual mind had " its own peculiar constitution ".

The Urn Burial has been admired by Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Cowper Powys, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said of it that it " smells in every word of the sepulchre.

He said the non-interventionists, without mentioning Harry Emerson Fosdick by name, seek to preserve the purity of their souls, either by denouncing military actions or by demanding that every action taken be unequivocally virtuous.

Emerson also demonstrated that every aspect of Drinker's patents had been patented by others at earlier times.

The small assembly line sent close to 500 units per day before Statitrol sold its invention to Emerson Electric in 1980 and Sears ’ s retailers picked up full distribution of the ' now required in every home ' smoke detector.

Emerson finally joined Loos in London, and to keep his spirits up she took him to the theatre every night.

Between segments in every show, she uses some harebrained scheme to try to meet Amanda, often with the help of Drake, Josh, or her brother Preston ( played by Taylor Emerson ), but never succeeds, though she is at times exceedingly close to doing so.

A fine summation of the position which Ryle is combating is the famous statement by Ralph Waldo Emerson that, " The ancestor of every action is a thought.

In light of Ryle's critique, we may translate the statement by Emerson ( still very much in common currency ) into, " The ancestor of every action is an action.

" Jim Emerson reviewed the film as well, saying that the documentary " isn't exactly a thorough or level-headed piece of reasoning or investigative journalism ; it's every bit the hot-headed political advertisement that Moore's film was, just a lot less funny.

Emerson is not only adamant in his beliefs, he seems every bit as willing as Hussein to trigger a nuclear war.

Emerson turns back to a spiritual connection at the conclusion of the essay and the collection: “ We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature .” ( 286 ).