...labors, in towns, in the insight into trades & manufacturers, in intimate intercourse with many men & women, in science, in art, to the one end of mastering...all their facts a language by which to illustrate & speak out our emotions & perceptions. . . . My garden is my dictionary. 131 If, as Brown maintains,...

...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...

...made to a class reading some work of true literary excellence. 7. Emerson declares that "one learns immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or splendor of his speech." Explain, first, what Emerson thus says, and then discuss how far the statement...