 What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in 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...  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 342by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...each set 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 worlds. — EMEESON. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man who has an inclination,... | |
 | 1912 - 620 pages
...or Provengal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have...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 matters ; show me... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...or Proven9al 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...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 matters ; show me... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pages
...to-day his own: He who, secure within himself can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day." Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. —EMERSON. "Just to fill the hour, that is happiness." " Happy then is the man who has that in his... | |
 | 1897 - 456 pages
...or provincial minstrelsy. I embrace the common, I explore, and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and the future worlds." So says Emerson, once more half-right — agreeing with hisfellow-New-Englander... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...or Proven§al 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...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 matters ; show me... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pages
...necessity of independent thought. America with him had no prototype, no model. "Give me," he said, "insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." I have a profound reverence for tradition, and accept humbly the lessons of experience, but in Lowell's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...art, or Provei^al 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...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 matters ; show me... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...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...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of 176 the bo Hy;— show me the ultimate reason of these \iatters ; show... | |
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