 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
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 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" (Essays, 61-62). 30. Smith argues that "[o]nly by an extreme irony or a thoroughly artistic failure... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836, journals 26:37 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or splendor of his speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837, The American Scholar' 26:38 Conversation is a game... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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 capstones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy... | |
 | Marta Dvořák - 2001 - 288 pages
..."our dictionary," while work, in trade and manufacturing as well as in country labours, is a means of "mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions" (English Traits 13). Buckler aligns himself with Emerson when in an interview granted to Don Cameron... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
..."Years are well spent in country labors; in town ... in frank intercourse with many men and women ... to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions."51 But through his diary and by personal example, Alcott taught Emerson about the combative... | |
 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pages
...were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. . . . Life lies 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... | |
 | Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 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 get tiles and copestones for the masonry of... | |
 | Thomas Leech - 2004 - 340 pages
...techniques can have a dramatic impact on your presentation's effectiveness. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived through the poverty or splendor of his speech." CHAPTER 13 Interact Successfully Managing Q&A Success at Questions and Answers... | |
 | C. Robert Cloninger M.D. - 2004 - 401 pages
...meant that we should learn Language by Colleges or Books. That only can we say which we have lived. Life lies behind us, as the quarry from whence we get tiles and cope-stones for the masonry of to-day" (Emerson and Forbes 1914). By the summer of 1839, Emerson had... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town; in 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... | |
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