English Traits", by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856), comprises an account of his English visits in 1833 and 1847, and a series of general observations on national character. It is the note-book of a philosophic traveller. In the earlier chapters, the sketches of his visits to Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth, while personal in some degree, reveal Emerson's character and humour in a delightful way. The trend of his mind to generalisation is evident in the titles given
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