...value of applying intelligence and extracting wisdom from the minute particulars of our quotidian life: "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body" (p. 69). He moves from external objects to our very modalities of knowing and experiencing....

...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...of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk,...

...Scholar" (1837), for a writer to illuminate the wondrous possibilities of the mundane and the ordinary: "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body." 18 Charles Johnson's Syncretistic Self In his book Religion in the Making, the philosopher Alfred...

...this movement that what is most common and familiar is that to which the active soul is most drawn: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body." This is the very stuff of what we might call secular, everyday reality. It is here precisely...

...her most challenging and beautiful poem. "What would we really know the meaning of?" asked Emerson: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...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...

...few decorative mottoes, to mumble something in the vernacular, or to assert with Emerson the priority of "the meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body." 71 CLASSICS IN RETREAT: ALTERTUMSWISSENSCHAFT COMES TO AMERICA Both the Old College...

...know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street; the use of the boat; 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...

...VCTiat would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the bailad in the street, the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters (...) the world lies no longer a dull...

...thinker to 'embrace', sitting 'at the feet of the familiar, the low'. In much-quoted words he states: What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body [...] the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and...

...here what Cavell says about a passage in 'The American Scholar' in which Emerson talks about 'the mean in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in...the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body' (quoted in SOW, p. 149). Cavell describes this passage as 'a list epitomizing what we may call...