 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
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...reminded at times of his greater countryman and my master, renowned Verulam. "Language," says your friend, "is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." I bow to such an utterance; it might have been lifted bodily from my Janua Linguarum Reserata, that... | |
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