 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 - 1912 - 314 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 ; in art ; to the one end of mastering 15 in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 542 pages
...meant that we should learn Language by Colleges or Books. That only can we say which we have lived. Life lies behind us, as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cope-stones for the masonry of to-day. 1 August 14. The preacher enumerates his classes of men, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...have suffered deplorable cle? ances, furnished ample material. hi frank intercourse with many men arid women ; in science ; in art ; to the one end of mastering...or the splendor of his speech.^ Life lies behind us s as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones1 for the masonry of to-day. This is the way... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1913 - 444 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 science;...behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cope-stones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 488 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 cope-stones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 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... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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...through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Lifejies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestone§_for_the masonry of to-day.... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 pages
...dictionary. Years are well spent in country labours; in town, in the insight into trades and manufactures; in frank intercourse with many men and women; in science;...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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 copes tones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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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