The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac, Do, like their letters, set men's reason back, And turn their wits that strive to understand it (Like those that write the characters) left-handed. Yet he that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages,... Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 30af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 sider
...those that write the characters), left-handed : Yet he, that, is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder than...that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own. These are the modern arts of education, With all the learned of mankind in fashion, 70 But practised... | |
| Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 sider
...those that write the characters), left-handed : Yet he, that, is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder than...that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own. These are the modern arts of education, With all the learned of mankind in fashion, TO But practised... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 sider
...well, grateful. XLII. THE LINGUIST. — — be that la but able to express No sense at all In various languages, Will pass for learneder than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own. — BUTLEB. A CHARACTER. THE Linguist is a creature all tongue, -without " a garnish of brains ;" or... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 280 sider
...treat him well, grateful. XLII. THE LINGUIST. he that is but able to express No sense at all in various languages, Will pass for learneder than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own.—BUTLER. A CHAEAOTER. THE Linguist is a creature all tongue, without " a garnish of brains;"... | |
| 1864 - 780 sider
...accomplishments as a linguist, for what says Butler ? " He that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder than...that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own." Mr. Wilson's friends generally seem rather weak in grammar and sense. " One of our foremost men," he... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sider
...Like those that write the characters left-handed ; Yet he, that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder, than...that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own. BUTLER. Upon the Abuse of Human Learning. T' ADORU their English with French scraps, ***** And while... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1869 - 504 sider
...(Like those that write the characters) left-handed. Yet he that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder than he that's known To speak the strongest reasou in his own." BUTLEB. THE description of persons who have the fewest ideas of all others are... | |
| simpkim marshall & co - 1871 - 460 sider
...perhaps you may have stumbled on the following: — " Yet he that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learneder than...that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own." And I don't know, after all, if mere book VOL. vn. learning constitutes education. Very frequently... | |
| 1873 - 526 sider
...speak His talent has but sprung a greater leak ; Yet he that is but able to express }!Q sense at all in several languages Will pass for learneder than...that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own. FIRESIDE GOSSIP. THE TAILOR-BIRD.— That a bird should turn its beak into a sewing-needle might seem... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 sider
...Yet he, that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learaeder, than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own. — S. Butler. LA NOUAGES. —The Ancient Oneness of All languages were originally united in one, and... | |
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