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 cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes,... Essays - 278 psl.autoriai: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 307 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 psl.
...and come out at last with a bag of wind, a 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, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day... | |
| 1885 - 696 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, 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, Greek, and pure mathematics, •'... | |
| 1883 - 684 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, 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 Latin, Greek, and mathematics, "which... | |
| John Spencer Clark - 1883 - 80 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, 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 Latin, Greek, and mathematics, "which,... | |
| Franklin Harvey Head - 1883 - 32 psl.
...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 nor the hour of the day by the sun." And in the same discourse,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes,...and skate. We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of adog, of a snake, of a spider. The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.... | |
| 1891 - 850 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes,...day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. .... Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the... | |
| Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1894 - 604 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands or our legs or our eyes or...cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog,... | |
| 1882 - 900 psl.
...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 devotion of the schools to Latin, Greek, and mathematics, " which,... | |
| 1900 - 252 psl.
...fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, 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 Colonel Jacobson, of Chicago ; Dr. Felix... | |
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