 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
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1903 - 568 psl.
...change which was coming over men's ideas about culture. We are students of words [he wrote in 1844] ; we cannot use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms. . . The lessons of science should be experimental. . . Once (say two centuries ago) Latin and Greek... | |
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