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... Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding - Strana 43podľa Basil Montagu - 1849Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - Počet stránok 360
...industrious 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...Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned... | |
| English authors - 1869 - Počet stránok 458
...industrious 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...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
| University of Oxford - 1869 - Počet stránok 314
...schoolmasters and pedants of his day, is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have...the solid things in them, as well as the words and idioms, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently... | |
| 1886 - Počet stránok 848
...shallows ; " and observes that " though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues liabel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only ; " and Locke said that "schools fit us for the university rather than for the... | |
| Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1903 - Počet stránok 428
...of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century by asserting that though a man "have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He further abhors the old error of the university instructor who casts untrained... | |
| 1877 - Počet stránok 600
...having all the tongues that Babel clove the world into, yet if he have not studied solid things in them, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his native dialect only." So the principal feature in the theory of the Innovators... | |
| United States. Dept. of State - 1961 - Počet stránok 904
...industrious 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...studied the solid things in them as well as the Words & Lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteem'da learned man, as any Yeoman or Tradesman competently... | |
| 1909 - Počet stránok 378
...industrious 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...nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yoeman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which... | |
| 1909 - Počet stránok 1132
...after Wisdom i to thai Language it fiui Ihf. Instrument conveying hi tu things usefull to be known. And though a Linguist should pride himself to have all the Tongues that Babel oleft the world Into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the Words and... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - Počet stránok 708
...immediately functional, for language is but an instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. 'Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.' English, unfortunately, did not as a language afford experience and tradition... | |
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