 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 American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 28by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tony Tanner - 1965 - 404 pages
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 | Wayne Franklin - 1989 - 328 pages
...from experience, he posits a set of metaphoric equivalencies between mental and physical exploration. "Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day," he asserts. "This is the way to learn grammar" (60). Instinct... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...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;...behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
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