And seeing every nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those people who have at any time been most industrious after wisdom; so that language is but the instrument... Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 212af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1803 - 456 sider
...Latin, so that by six years old I spoke Latin fluently.—Montaigne. A foreign language is only an instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a lingufet should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 sider
...in all difcreet teaching. And feeing every • ' nation nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of thofe people who have at any time been moft induftrious after wifdom ; fo that language is but the... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 sider
...be followed in all difcreet teaching. And feeing every nation affords .not experience and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of thofe people who have at any time been moft induftrious after wifdom ; fo that language is but the... | |
| 1807 - 542 sider
...Register dsservelly bestowed u'pqti 11. . " Sceing> every nation af'• fords not experience and tradition enough' '•' for" all kind of learning, therefore we are " chiefly taught the languages of those peo'.^pje-jwho ^ave at any t'VTie ^eeo noQst 'n' " dusuious after wisdrm. So t,hat language. ** ii"^!!!... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 sider
...experience, and tradition anough for all kind of learning, and therefore, we are chiefly taught the language of those people who have at any time been most industrious...instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And thqugh a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet,... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 sider
...discreet teaching. And seeing every nation affords not experience and tradition, enough for all kinds of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those people wlvo have at any time been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying... | |
| Precept - 1825 - 302 sider
...discreet teaching. And seeing every nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kinds of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those people who at any time have been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying... | |
| Stephen Laidler, James William Massie - 1827 - 440 sider
...practice. There is an important truth which should not be overlooked in the plan of education, viz. " language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." " Every nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kind of learning," and when this... | |
| University of Cambridge - 1830 - 636 sider
...COLLEGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. " Ami, KCÍDB every nation afford! not experience and tradition enough for All kind of learning ; therefore we are chiefly taught the language* of thoK people who bave at any time been most ir ют after wiadom."— Hilton. CAMBRIDGE... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sider
...it. — Letter to Deodati. OF EDUCATION. AND seeing every nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are...but the instrument conveying to us things useful to he known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world... | |
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