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Farmers were, first of all, Transcendentalists which is to say they were philosophers and not given to repining.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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The educator, publisher, and reformer Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 1804-1894 was inseparable from the circle of writers and reformers known as Transcendentalists in mid-nineteenth century Boston.
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These are called Transcendentalists, because they believe in an order of truth that transcends the sphere of the external senses.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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But in the second quarter of the nineteenth century there arose in New England a group of writers who are known as Transcendentalists, and who produced one of the most important sections of American literature.
American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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The Transcendentalists were a New Mexico-based group, the significance of their thought and accomplishment still under-regarded by art-historical orthodoxy.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Peter Frank 2010
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The place was a "milk farm" when the "Transcendentalists," as they were often called, entered on it.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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The little, scarcely organized Community had increased into a goodly number, so that its dining room was like a small hotel; and it was no longer held by the "Transcendentalists," but had become a portion of a large and increasing body of men who followed the wild ideas of a Frenchman named Fourier, and called itself the
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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'Transcendentalists' were of the Brook Farm company.
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis George William Curtis 1858
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"Transcendentalists" was applied, and which made itself an organ in the periodical known as "The Dial," has been written about by many who were in the movement, and others who looked on or got their knowledge of it at second hand.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Who knew, for instance, that the New Mexico Transcendentalists produced its own abstract animator, Horace Towner Pierce?
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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