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... The British Educator - Strana 1181856Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| John Milton - 1826 - Počet stránok 368
...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 - 1826 - Počet stránok 368
...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 the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much lo be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 352
...admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.—Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. Though a Linguist should pride himself to have all...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compe-i tantly wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts — Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. Though a Linguist should pride himself to have all...have not studied the solid things in them as well Its the words ami lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Počet stránok 412
...of the tongue and teeth : linguist, a professor of languages, or one skilled in various languages. 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,... | |
| 1829 - Počet stránok 188
...RESTORATION OF THE PRIMITIVE MODE OF SCHOLASTIC TUITION IN ENGLAND, DISEMBARRASSED OF ITS MODERN ABUSES. " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together to much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully iu one year."... | |
| lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - Počet stránok 652
...opinions on the subject of education in the above passage very much coincide with those of Milton. " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the .•in/til tllings in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - Počet stránok 364
...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... | |
| James Simpson - 1834 - Počet stránok 350
...linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he has not studied the solid things in them, as well as the...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only." LOCKE, on Education, says, "Would not a Chinese, who had notice of our way of... | |
| George Combe - 1834 - Počet stránok 144
...extensive miscellaneous reading * Vol. ip 89, 90. Murray, 1832. 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,... | |
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