 He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants a grove of trees by the roadside, plants an orchard, builds a durable house, reclaims a swamp, or so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far...  Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 2by Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1904 - 27 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1909 - 566 lehte
...warm paragraph in his forthcoming message to congress. Emerson defines the "continuous benefactor" as "he who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants a grove of trees by the wayside, plants an orchard, builds a durable house, reclaims a swamp or so much as puts a stone seat... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 312 lehte
...accumulated in frosty furrows, in poverty, necessity, and darkness. He is the continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants...durable house, reclaims a swamp, or so much as puts a (tone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1882 - 420 lehte
...fifty years of the town's history. A wise man has said that the farmer is a continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants a grove of trees by the road side, plants an orchard, builds a durable house, reclaims a swamp, or so much as puts a stone... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 lehte
...accumulated in frosty furrows, in poverty, necessity, and darkness. He is the continuous benefactor. rped by his sense ; when with one hand he rows, and...awaking to the idea of union, and these experiments sho andi desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him, but which is useful to his countrylong... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 308 lehte
...accumulated in frosty furrows, in poverty, necessity, and darkness. He is the continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants...plants an orchard, builds a durable house, reclaims a swafnp, or so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 558 lehte
...continuous benefactor. Ho who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants a grovo of trees by tho roadside, plants an orchard, builds a durable house,...reclaims a swamp, or so much as puts a stone seat by tho wayside, makes tho land so far lovely and desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot carry away... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 lehte
...accumulated in frosty furrows, in poverty, necessity, and darkness. The farmer is a continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants...a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him, but which is useful to his country... | |
 | 1903 - 360 lehte
...accumulated in frosty furrows, in poverty, necessity, and darkness. The farmer is a continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants...a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him, but which is useful to his country... | |
 | 1907 - 264 lehte
...accumulated in frosty furrows, in poverty, necessity, and darkness. The farmer is a continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain, plants...a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him, but which is useful to his country... | |
 | Lawton Bryan Evans, Luther Noble Duncan, George William Duncan, Luther N. Duncan, George W. Duncan - 1916 - 396 lehte
...He said : "Don't bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Never name sickness," and "He who digs a well, constructs a stone fountain,...wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable." Word Study. cre ate' — to cause to exist. prim'i tive — first, original. ac tiv'i ty — energy,... | |
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