...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...

...minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at tho feet of tho familiar, the low. Givo mo insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the moaning of t Tho meal in the firkin ; the milk in tho pan ; tho ballad in the street; the news of the...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...great, the remote, the romantic, what is doing in Arabia or in Italy, what is Greek art, or provincial minstrelsy. I embrace the common, I explore, and sit...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...

...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...

...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." " Democracy ! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing." This Address,...

...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...

...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 deep seated and thoroughly German conviction of the dignity of scholastic...