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" 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 342
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
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American Essays: Making it New

Charles Tomlinson - 2001 - 220 pages
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Narrative Skepticism: Moral Agency and Representations of Consciousness in ...

Linda Schermer Raphael - 2001 - 248 pages
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Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience

Jessica R. Feldman - 2002 - 292 pages
...the importance of domestic culture in James's work, these words from Emerson's "American Scholar": What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...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; show me the sublime...
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Readings at the Edge of Literature

Myra Jehlen - 2002 - 254 pages
..."What would we really know the meaning of?" asked Emerson sweeping aside the long descent of erudition. "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body."8 Though he was indubitably "very respectable," Emerson anticipated...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary

Tracy B. Strong - 2002 - 236 pages
...remote, the romantic. ... I embrace the common. I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? RW Emerson, The American Scholar The natural is always the historical. Martin Heidegger, What Is Called...
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Sportsmen and Gamesmen

John Dizikes - 2002 - 374 pages
...the remote, the romantic. 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 future worlds. Emerson's proclamation rang down through succeeding generations because it touched on ideas deeply...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...one day gives, another takes." — George "Give me today, and take tomorrow." — St. John Chrysostom "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." — Nietzsche "For there is no day however beautiful which has not its night." — Anonymous "Many...
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The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business

Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck - 2001 - 278 pages
...attention in the new economy, attention measurement will be everywhere. Every performer, Overheard. "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" author, sports star, and politician will be painfully aware...
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Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-century Berlin

Michael Fried, Adolph Menzel - 2002 - 340 pages
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Skew-Tolerant Circuit Design

David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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