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George Ripley
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George Ripley
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George Ripley
This biography of George Ripley, published in the late 19th century, provides a detailed account of the life and work of one of America's most influential intellectuals. A key figure in the Transcendentalist movement, Ripley was a writer, philosopher, and social reformer who devoted his life to exploring the boundaries of human knowledge. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including Ripley's own letters and journals, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a complex and multifaceted thinker. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
George Ripley (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from George Ripley The purpose of this memoir is to recover the image and do justice to the character of a remarkable man, the pursuits of whose latter years gave him little opportunity to display his deepest convictions, while his singular charm of manner and conversation concealed from all but those who knew him well the recesses of his feelings; a man of letters, a man too of ideas and purposes which left a broad mark on his age, and deserve to be gratefully borne in mind. George Ripley was born in Greenfield, the shire town of Franklin County, Massachusetts, - a fair spot in the Connecticut Valley, about ninety miles west from Boston, - on the third day of October, 1802. He was t...
George Ripley
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George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591)
Biographical details for George Ripley (c.1415-c.1490), one of England's best-known alchemical authorities, are sketchy, but he is known to have travelled widely on the Continent in search of alchemical wisdom. Whilst a canon regular at the Augustinian priory at Bridlington in Yorkshire, he conducted alchemical experiments and wrote widely on the subject. Ripley's popular alchemical poem, The Compound of Alchemy, has survived in many manuscript versions, was first printed in 1591 with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth, and prompted many explications and commentaries during the two centuries following Ripley's death. Originally dedicated by Ripley to King Edward IV, the poem figures the King as...
The Transcendentalists
The philosophy explained in terms of selections from the writings of the chief adherents.
George Ripley
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