 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
 | 1886 - 542 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,...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our arms. In a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common sense still... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1886 - 116 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... | |
 | 1891 - 836 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 - 1888 - 402 pages
...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...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 - 1888 - 320 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, and do not know a tiling. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1894 - 604 pages
...given. 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 course... | |
 | 1882 - 900 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, and do not know a thing. We can not use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive... | |
 | 1900 - 252 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." During the next few years addresses were given by such men as... | |
 | 1899 - 828 pages
...subject: "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." He said he did not know ten men who had been ten years out of college who remembered the Greek they... | |
 | 1900 - 784 pages
...say: "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." On the other hand, illustrations are countless of the fact that... | |
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