 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...Years are well spent in country labours ; in town,— in the insight into trades and manufactories ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in...much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendour of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cope-stones... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edwin Sawyer Walker - 1895 - 100 pages
...MDCCCXCV. Three hundred copies of this work are printed for private circulation, of which this is Number " I learn Immediately from any speaker how much he has...behind us, as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cope-stones, for the masonry of to-day. *»•*•» The office of the scholar Is to cheer and to guide... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...into trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in ar^; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language...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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1898 - 426 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... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1898 - 320 pages
...and so defends it. spent in country labors ; in town ; in the insight into trades and manufactures; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in...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... | |
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