 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, arid do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or...We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot fise our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do uot know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day... | |
 | 1885 - 696 pages
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of schools to Latin, Greek, and pure mathematics, •'... | |
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We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes,... 
