 If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town, — in the insight into trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science...  The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 80by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884Full view - About this book
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...trades and manufactures ; 1 1 Cor. xv. 54. 2 Corporal punishment at school administered with the ferule. in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones1... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1897 - 320 pages
...general thought, repeats it, explains it, illustrates it, and so defends it. spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures...intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in ar^; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1898 - 426 pages
...covetous of action," writes Emerson. " Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town; in the insight into trades and manufactures;...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1898 - 320 pages
...general thought, repeats it, explains it, illustrates it, and so defends it. spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures;...which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learu immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...scholar would be covetous of action. Life' is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 pages
...scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1900 - 332 pages
...scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town, — in the insight into trades and manufactures...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry whence we get tiles and copestones for the... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 318 pages
...general thought, repeats it, explains it, illustrates it, and so defends it. spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures...all their facts a language by which to illustrate anil embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through... | |
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