Prudence, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prudence

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 0 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/21/2018

Genre: Literary Collections - American

Synopsis

The essay on Prudence was given as a lecture in a course on Human Culture, in the winter of 1837-8. It was published in the first series of Essays, which appeared in 1841. In it, Emerson describes Prudence as The virtue of the senses and admits to having little of it in himself.

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