 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
 | Janet A. Emig - 1995 - 464 pages
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 | Leonard Cassuto, Jeanne Campbell Reesman - 1996 - 316 pages
...quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day," Emerson explains. "I 217 learn immediately from any speaker how much he has...through the poverty or the splendor of his speech." 3 The splendor of London's speech is due in considerable measure to the richness of experience that... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 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;...by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions" (Essays, 61-62). 30. Smith argues that "[o]nly by an extreme irony or a thoroughly artistic failure... | |
 | John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836, journals 26:37 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or splendor of his speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837, The American Scholar' 26:38 Conversation is a game... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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 capstones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
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