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 - 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... | |
| 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... | |
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