 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 páginas
...wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And thqugh 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... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to he known. And tho' a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues...yet, if he had not studied the solid things in them as"well as the words an<j lexicons, lie were were nothing to be so much esteem'da learned man, as any... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1821 - 724 páginas
...of Education, " had expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language : — " And r + $B {` J <S R] O W/w h _pNm 9 )W$bjH M Z { e-lM... OiYxo 1J [e D &\ x ,I ' G & 'V ~ (v Ԇ tilings in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 páginas
...admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.—Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. Though a Linguist should pride himself to have all...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts — Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. Though a Linguist should pride himself to have all...tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well Its the words ami lexicons, he were nothing so much... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 páginas
...of the tongue and teeth : linguist, a professor of languages, or one skilled in various languages. Though a 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,... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 páginas
...opinions on the subject of education in the above passage very much coincide with those of Milton. " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the .•in/til tllings in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing... | |
 | George Combe - 1834 - 144 páginas
...extensive miscellaneous reading * Vol. ip 89, 90. Murray, 1832. 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,... | |
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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... 
