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 - Pàgina 342per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1896 - 374 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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