...ng to Daniel Webster. He had the happiest gift of portraiture, as is witnessed by his sketches of Montaigne, of Napoleon, of Socrates (in the essay on Plato), of his aunt Mary Moody Emerson, of Thoreau , and of various types of Englishmen in his . But the great essays, no doubt, are those like , and . These will puzzle no one who has read carefully that first book on . They all preach the gos...