 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 - 1835 - Počet stránok 1044
...after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And i. 10, 11 ; upon which text interpreters agree, t Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful;... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 432
...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... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - Počet stránok 926
...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 - Počet stránok 448
...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 - Počet stránok 308
...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 - Počet stránok 352
...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... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 598
...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.... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - Počet stránok 216
...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 - Počet stránok 404
...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... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - Počet stránok 258
...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:... | |
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