 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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 at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give J me insight into to-day, and you may have v\ the antique and future worlds. What would we really know... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the faGive me insight into to-day, and| you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really... | |
 | Charles Hanford Henderson - 1905 - 456 pages
...COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK THE CHILDREN OF GOOD FORTUNE GOOD FORTUNE ftn in BY C>%ANFORD HENDERSON " Give me insight into to-day and you may have the antique and future worlds," Emerson. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY <Eambn&0t COPYRIGHT 1905 BY C. HANFORD HENDERSON... | |
 | Nixon Waterman - 1906 - 170 pages
...doth waste me. — SHAKESPEARE. Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them. — HARDEN. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. — EMERSON. When I don't know whether to fight or not, I always fight. — NELSON. What is a gentleman... | |
 | Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1906 - 504 pages
...finality that Miss Gillian dared not utter another word. CHAPTER XXII ' BEGONE, DULL MELANCHOLY ! ' Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. — EMERSON. Outdoor exercise is the best physic. — NAPOLEON. Usually that which a man calls fate... | |
 | Kuno Francke - 1907 - 372 pages
...unpretentious which he has expressed so well, " I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; I embrace the common ; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low ; " here he acquired that deepseated and thoroughly German conviction of the dignity of scholastic... | |
 | 1908 - 812 pages
...as he was so often, with the authority of ancient seers and the early centuries, he keenly returned: "Give me insight into to-day; and you may have the antique and the future worlds." The miracles, therefore, on which the theologians of the last century rested religion,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art or Provenqal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...the feet of the familiar, the low./ Give me insight intp» to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. I What would we really know the meaning... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy0; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique 30 and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven 9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. 25 What would we really know ihe meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad... | |
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I ask not for the 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 at the feet of the "familiar, the low. 
