...extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake....the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as...

...extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his ~ 5 passed by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect molds her splendid...

...his nerves and his nap, tc _^spare any action in which he can partake. It is pearls anc | rubies td his discourse. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want,...grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a _Joss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. A strange...

...his public importance, whilst they grow nerves and his nap, to spare any action richer every year. 4o in which he can partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse. Drudgery, III. There goes in the world a notion calamity, exasperation, want, are inthat the scholar should be...

...extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake....It is the raw material out of which the intellect molds her splendid products. A strange process, too, this by which experience is converted into thought,...

...partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructers in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges...the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought,...

...extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake....discourse. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructers in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by,...

...his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake"; but also underlined the qualifying sentences: "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action...the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products." 14 A similar set of sentences had been underlined and indexed five pages earlier....

...Emerson was not less concerned with action than Franklin. Not unlike the indefatigable Poor Richard, "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power" ("American Scholar," 60). The important difference lies in the nature and locus of this power. For...

...afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake. . . . Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect molds her splendid...