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... Papers for the Schoolmaster - Side 971852Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1856 - 352 sider
...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...man as any yeoman or tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much... | |
| 1856 - 86 sider
...linguist should prids 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...man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." ' Those languages should be preferred which afford the most abundant means... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 sider
...cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid," which involve assuredly the common, " things in them, as well as the words and lexicons,...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in bis mother dialect only." He goes on to speak of such culture, as if it were only a haling and dragging... | |
| 1857 - 514 sider
...wrote — " And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid, things...man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only." If, through this paper, our views are those of a pessimist, it is because... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1857 - 228 sider
...Milton, " 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...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." " Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known."... | |
| John Wakefield Francis - 1857 - 272 sider
...linguist, who 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...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his mother's dialect." Yet ages have rolled on since this oracular declaration,... | |
| 1857 - 986 sider
...tells us that " though a linguist should pride himself to have all the 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, Jie were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in... | |
| George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 376 sider
...Milton, " 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...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." — " Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be... | |
| George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 380 sider
...the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them, (9) as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." — "Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known."... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 sider
...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...man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."* The question which these learned students superciliously answer in the negative,... | |
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