 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 - Էջ 2461839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1856 - 374 էջ
...— 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 - 600 էջ
...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 - 84 էջ
...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 - 352 էջ
...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 - 768 էջ
...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 - 368 էջ
...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 - 228 էջ
...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 - 272 էջ
...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 - 514 էջ
...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 - 986 էջ
...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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