Three Unpublished Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cicero and Pliny. He then praises Pliny's famous letter describing the eruption of Vesuvius: All is as simple, natural, easy, and familiar as if the story had been told in conversation without a moment's premeditation. 40 To another correspondent in the same year Adams recommends: Read the relation of the battle between Catiline and his adversaries in Sallust. You see the combatants. You feel the ardor of the

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