...labors, in towns, in the insight into trades & manufacturers, in intimate intercourse with many men & women, in science, in art, to the one end of mastering...all their facts a language by which to illustrate & speak out our emotions & perceptions. . . . My garden is my dictionary. 131 If, as Brown maintains,...

...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...