 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 - 1880 - 328 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;...to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learn imniediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 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 - 1883 - 392 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 - 1883 - 428 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 - 1883 - 658 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 ; •...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 copyjthe... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 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...immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, ihrough the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 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;...perceptions. I- learn immediately from any speaker Low much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...— in the insight into trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; iu science ; in art ; to the one end of mastering in...behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cops-stones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...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...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 copestones... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...ji / are well spent in country labours ; in town, — in tha insight into trades and manufactures; in frank intercourse with many men and women; in science;...a' . language by which to illustrate and embody our peri ceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty... | |
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