| Concord School of Philosophy - 1885 - 530 páginas
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 páginas
...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 - 1894 - 480 páginas
...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... | |
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1897 - 456 páginas
...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... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 páginas
...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... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 348 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1899 - 730 páginas
...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... | |
| Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 páginas
...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... | |
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