 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1903 - 376 pages
...given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schoolsy and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...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. We do not know an edible root in the... | |
 | Gustav Stickley - Architecture, Domestic - 1905 - 958 pages
...~\~\ TE are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and yy colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...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. We do not know an edible root in the... | |
 | Apprentices - 1907 - 68 pages
..."We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms from ten to 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 legs, or our eyes, or our arms." APPRENTICESHIP IN ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE... | |
 | Medicine - 1899 - 630 pages
...should go together. Emerson said: "We are a student of words; we are shut up in schools and colleges for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a bag...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." The truth of this statement can be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1909 - 496 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...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. We do not know an edible root in the... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 540 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...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. We do not know an edible root in the... | |
 | Charles Franklin Thwing - Education - 1916 - 312 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...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. We do not know an edible root in the... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - College stories - 1916 - 348 pages
...another.* 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...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.* Men in all ways are better than they seem. They like flattery for the moment, but they know the truth... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen jears, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. <I We can not use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in... | |
 | Helen Parkhurst - Dalton laboratory plan - 1922 - 314 pages
...are students of words," he wrote, "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come ! out at last with a...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." In a recent interview Thomas Edison, whose only formal education consisted of "some instruction from... | |
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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. 
