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
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town; in the insight into trades and manufactures; 5 copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
| 1926 - 326 pages
...oracle; all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's." — Emeraon. "I learn immediately from any speaker how much he...through the poverty or the splendor of his speech." — Emerson. "Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 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... | |
| American Medical Association - 1928 - 1286 pages
...man who desires it. Call to mind the thought expressed by the great Emerson on this point, who said, "I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived by the poverty or splendor of his speech." WILLIAM FULLER. "FORD ATTACKS MEDICO ETHICS" A Rcccnl Newspaper... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 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... | |
| Wayne Franklin - 1989 - 328 pages
...from experience, he posits a set of metaphoric equivalencies between mental and physical exploration. "Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day," he asserts. "This is the way to learn grammar" (60). Instinct... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
| Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 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 today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
| Dietrich Blandow, Michael J. Dyrenfurth - 1994 - 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 science;...by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. .. . This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and... | |
| Leonard Cassuto, Jeanne Campbell Reesman - 1996 - 316 pages
...quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day," Emerson explains. "I 217 learn immediately from any speaker how much he has...through the poverty or the splendor of his speech." 3 The splendor of London's speech is due in considerable measure to the richness of experience that... | |
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