 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
 | Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 342 pages
...frank intercourse with many men and women; in science; hi art; to the one end of mastering in all then* facts a language by which to illustrate and embody...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... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 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. . . . Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we I get tiles and copestones for the masonry of... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 534 pages
...of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. . . . Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. With these influences affecting him the scholar must perform... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...dictionary. Years are well ' country labors ; in town, — in the insight into trades nanufactures ; 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... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1923 - 668 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... | |
 | Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott - 1922 - 614 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... | |
 | Emerson Grant Sutcliffe - 1923 - 738 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... | |
 | Mrs. Martha Farr Purdon - 1923 - 304 pages
...chimney corner. They were ensconced on the rampart, and could not be dislodged. LESSON THIRTY-EIGHT. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has...through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Emerson. ensemble (an-san'-b'l), n. French. The whole; general appearance ; the total or general effect.... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 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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