 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...; what is Grcek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the fcet of the familiar, 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... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...into the ever-c-xpanding universe, do not fear you will outsee nature and God, und drink truth dry : 1 embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the faruiliar and low. Give me insight into to-dav, and you may bav« the antique ami future worlds; give... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Prove^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...the pan ; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason of... | |
 | 1903 - 820 pages
...some of his primary and essential teachings. What could have been more truly Emersonian than this ? "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." And he had been again to Harvard to speak his Divinity School address, that word that smote hard upon... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1885 - 530 pages
...remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arahia ; what is Greek art or Provencal minstrelsy ; 1 embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." To round out this thought of his to its fulness there must be added these words : " Wherever a man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 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 pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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 pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; show me the ultimate reason of these... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...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 pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1894 - 480 pages
...each vet with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. — HORACE MANN. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future world). — EMERSON. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man who has... | |
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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... 
