 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
 | George Combe - 1839 - 156 sider
...flexibility, and beauty of style, by extensive miscellaneous reading in his native tongue. Milton says, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | 1839 - 636 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 Habel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 514 sider
...Tractate of Education," has expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language :-•"And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that BabeF cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 382 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 sider
...should pride himself to have all the tourne* hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have nvt itudied the solid things in them, as well as the words and...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compeently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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 Milton - 1845 - 572 sider
...language is but the instrument conveying to us things use- \ ful to be known. And though a ImguisFsEould pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful... | |
 | James Booth - 1846 - 172 sider
...prospects of Mathematical and Physical Studies in the University of Oxford. Oxford, 1832. •(•"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.... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 sider
...private individual, but of every measure of government. — Bentham. On the Study of Languages. — Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft tlie world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in FROM THE BEST AUTHORS. them as well... | |
 | A. R. Craig - 1847 - 408 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...were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as a yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which... | |
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