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" I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad... "
The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir - Page 71
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 3

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy and Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters;—show me the sublime presence of the highest...
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The Present, Volume 1

1843 - 452 pages
...the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and the future worlds. What would we really know the meaning...the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of tho eye ; the form and the gait of the body; — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common: I explore and sit...the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common—I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar—the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the 63-e; the form and the gait of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the bpat ; thejjlajics.of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of 1 The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street ; thd news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the \o^> Give me insight into to-day, and you may have tlwr antique and future worlds. What would we really know...glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — showjne the ultimate reason of these matters ; show me the sublimejresence of the highest spiritual...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...the low. \\Give me insight into to-day, and you \ may have tho antique and future worlds.Y\ What V would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the strcet ; the news of the bout ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...beginning to be interested in near and common things instead of in the " doings in Italy and Arabia." " What would we really know the meaning of — the meal...firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street." And he closes in that hopeful strain, so characteristic of Emerson, by expressing the utmost faith...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...beginning to be interested in near and common things instead of in the " doings in Italy and Arabia." " What would we really know the meaning of — the meal...firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street." And he closes in that hopeful strain, so characteristic of Emerson, by expressing the utmost faith...
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