 And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman...  Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 23af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 sider
...after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | 1836 - 432 sider
...after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 sider
...after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, (3) yet if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were... | |
 | James Simpson - 1836 - 308 sider
...themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In another place, Milton says, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | 1837 - 352 sider
...of our present years. Soame Jenyns. 599. Words and Things.— Though a linguist should pride himsclf to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only.— Milton. 600. Sources of True Enjoyment. — How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 sider
...tediousness quote another authority — the great Milton — that prodigy of learning and genius. He says, " though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And that the knowledge of the languages which is acquired in general, by boys at school, and even at... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sider
...after wisdom : so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to he known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful... | |
 | 1839 - 598 sider
...after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful.... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 sider
...individual, but of every measure of government.—Bentham. DXXXV. On the Study of Languages—Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence, appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful:... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 100 sider
...'Tractate of Education,' has expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language: — 'And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much... | |
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