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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... "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 106
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provei^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...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

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...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...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...the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the f orm and the gait of the body; show me the ultimate reason of these...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 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...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...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

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...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 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...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 pages
...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...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...
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The Children of Good Fortune: An Essay in Morals

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...
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Foregrounds and Backgrounds in Work for the Sick: An Address Delivered at ...

Richard Clarke Cabot - 1906 - 78 pages
...illusions is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. God give me insight into to-day! The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the glance of the eye, the form and gait of the body; show me the sublime presence lurking, as it always...
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"Boy Wanted": A Book of Cheerful Counsel

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...
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