 ... particularly to determine the proper season for grammar, I do not see how it can reasonably be made any one's study, but as an introduction to rhetoric : when it is thought time to put any one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking...  The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pàgina 171per Sydney Smith - 1844Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Locke - 1712 - 332 pàgines
...Tongue, ami-. oFfpeab'rig better than the Illiterate, thenis the Time for him to be infbruded in th* Rules of Grammar, and not before. For Grammar being to teach Men not to fpeak, but to fpeak correctly, and according to the exact Rules of the Tongue, which is one Part of... | |
 | John Locke - 1779 - 336 pàgines
...his tongue, and of fpeaking better than the illiterate : then' is the time for him to be inftructed in the rules of grammar, and not before. For grammar being to teach. men not to fpeak but to fpeak correctly, and according to the exact rules of the tongue, which is one part of... | |
 | 1826 - 616 pàgines
...the care of polishing his 4 tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the 1 time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhe' toric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not ' why any one should waste his time,... | |
 | 1803 - 456 pàgines
...and when it is thought time to put any one upon the care of polishing his tongue, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar, and not before. When any one finds in himself a necessity or disposition to study any foreign language to the bottom... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 498 pàgines
...upoirtne riare of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...use of the one to him that has no need of the other; wherej'hetoric is not necessary, gram mar jmayjbe^ spared^ I know not why any one should waste his... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 pàgines
...the care of polishing • his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to ' be instructed in the rules of grammar, and not before. For grammar being lo ' teach men, not to speak, but to speak correctly, and according to the exact 'rules of the tongue,... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pàgines
...upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the tongue, which is one part of elegancy, there is liltle use of the one to him that has no need of the other; where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pàgines
...upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is The time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...according to the exact rules of the tongue, which is one p:irt of elegancy, there is little use of the one to him that has no need of the study of grammar to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not why anyone should waste his time, and beat his head about the Latin grammar, who does not intend to be... | |
 | Thomas Kelt - 1849 - 424 pàgines
...one on the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar, and not before : for grammar is designed not only to teach men to speak, but to speak correctly, and according to the exact rules... | |
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