 | 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
...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... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 636
...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 Habel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words... | |
 | 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 all...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
...should pride himself to have all the tourne* hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have nvt itudied the solid things in them, as well as the words and...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compeently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - Počet stránok 572
...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 - 1845 - Počet stránok 572
...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 cleft...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful... | |
 | James Booth - 1846 - Počet stránok 172
...prospects of Mathematical and Physical Studies in the University of Oxford. Oxford, 1832. •(•"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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | A. R. Craig - 1847 - Počet stránok 408
...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...were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as a yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which... | |
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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... 
