 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - Počet stránok 100
...'Tractate of Education,' has expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language: — 'And though a linguist should pride himself to have...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... | |
 | George Combe - 1839 - Počet stránok 156
...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,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - Počet stránok 514
...small " 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... | |
 | James William Massie - 1840 - Počet stránok 500
...practice. There is an important truth which should not be overlooked in the plan of education, viz. 'language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known.' ' Every nation affords not experience and tradition enough for all kind of learning,' and when this... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - Počet stránok 382
...Tractate of Education," has expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language: — "And though a linguist should pride himself to have...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 - Počet stránok 692
...and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those er, her dame's cock, and at niyht mates the lamb her...curfeir. In milking a cow, and straining the teats conreying to ш thing« useful to be known. And though i linguist should pride himself to have all... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - Počet stránok 572
...and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those people who have at any time been most industrious...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... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - Počet stránok 478
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Počet stránok 712
...and tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those ľ ԁ t ;hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Počet stránok 712
...anc tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those ě i linguist should pride himself to have all the tongue hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he hive... | |
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Comenius. in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. 
