 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
 | 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... | |
 | University of Wisconsin. Bureau of educational research - 1926 - 826 pages
...of usage which they proceed to repudiate in specific instances. One even quotes Emerson as saying, "Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 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 today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...fHrt.inrmry "Tears 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... | |
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