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Born on May 25, came from a long line of merchants on his mother’s side and preachers on his father’s side. It is possibly this unique conglomeration of life experiences that lead Emerson to be possibly one of the greatest and most influential essayists and t ....

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.... was always placed in the best scholastic environment available to him, which is ironic because later Emerson says education comes from personal experience rather than what a text book says. After several independent private schools and college prepatory schools, Emerson entered Harvard. Emerson later says of Harvard, “ It has done little for me on the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he says his, “...mind commenced its characteristic and beautiful activity.” Over the years Emerson became interested in the church and eventually enrolled in divinity school. In 1829 Emerson married seventeen year old Ellen Tucker, however seve ....