 We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.  The Apprenticeship Bulletin - Page 51907Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...\We_ are stndents of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot fise our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do uot know an edible root in the woods,... | |
 | 1885 - 696 pages
..." We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of schools to Latin,... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pages
..." We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of the schools to... | |
 | John Spencer Clark - 1883 - 80 pages
..." We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands or our legs, or our eyes or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of the schools to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or t by manifold science. It can be obtained by the soul...which it is desired. It reveals its own truths.'" our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 282 pages
...We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | Franklin Harvey Head - 1883 - 32 pages
...says, "we are students of words; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a bag of wind ; a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We can not use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms. We can not tell our course Ъу the stars... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 326 pages
...We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, nnd do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not... | |
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