 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...  The New England Magazine - Página 3721893Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1857 - 228 páginas
...is of equal value, at least, with any authority yet cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that...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 páginas
...world, in his tractate on education, when referring to the physical sciences, that " the linguist, who should pride himself to have all the tongues that...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 páginas
...species of information which Milton indicated, in the Tractate of Education, when he wrote — " 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... | |
 | 1857 - 986 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 376 páginas
...is of equal value, at least, with any authority yet cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that...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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 380 páginas
...is of equal value, at least, with any authority yet cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that...yet if he have not studied the solid things in them, (9) as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 páginas
...who understand its purport and value far better than hosts of others who have read it in the Greek. "Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."* The question which these learned students superciliously answer in the negative, is — whether a man... | |
 | 1864 - 402 páginas
...have read it in the Greek. "Though a liic*should pride himself to have all the tongues that Bi " _ cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."* The question which these learned students superciliously answer in the negative, is — whether a man... | |
 | 1868 - 970 páginas
...not with words but with things. " Though a linguist," says Milton, "should pride himself to haveill the tongues that Babel cleft the world into ; yet...nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any jeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And yet, if we reflect upon it, we... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 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...Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned... | |
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