 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...  American Annals of Education - Strana 2461839Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 374
...— Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. Though a Linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear liie many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; and we do... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 600
...Bacon. WOBDS AND THINGS. — Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. — Milton. HUMILITY. — When the two goats, on a narrow bridge, met over a deep stream, was not lie... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 84
...TH. WYSE. Education reform. though a linguist should prids himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." ' Those languages should be preferred which afford the most abundant means of gaining knowledge. A... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 352
...Milton truthfully remarks, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - Počet stránok 768
...And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,8 yet if he have not studied the solid things in them,...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - Počet stránok 368
...common. " Though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid," which involve assuredly the common, " things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1857 - Počet stránok 228
...cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." " Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." This is kindred to the... | |
 | John Wakefield Francis - 1857 - Počet stránok 272
...physical sciences, that " the linguist, who should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his mother's dialect." Yet ages have rolled on since this oracular declaration,... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 514
...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...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only." If, through this paper, our views are those of a pessimist, it is because we... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 986
...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, Jie were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in... | |
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