 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 Prose Works of John Milton - Pàgina 159per John Milton - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pàgines
...education in the above passage very much coincide with those of Milton. " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the 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 so much to be esteemed... | |
 | George Combe - 1834 - 144 pàgines
...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...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.' And Dr. ADAM SMITH observes, that 'it seldom happens that a man, in any part of his life, derives any... | |
 | James Simpson - 1834 - 350 pàgines
...linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he has not studied the solid things in them, as well as the...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only." LOCKE, on Education, says, "Would not a Chinese, who had notice of our way of... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pàgines
...language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pàgines
...language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | James Simpson - 1836 - 308 pàgines
...linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only." LOCKE, on Education, says, " Would not a Chinese, who had notice of our way of... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pàgines
...of our present years. Soame Jenyns. 599. Words and Things.— Though a linguist should pride himsclf to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only.— Milton. 600. Sources of True Enjoyment. — How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pàgines
...authority — the great Milton — that prodigy of learning and genius. He says, " though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And that the knowledge of the languages which is acquired in general, by boys at school, and even at... | |
 | George Combe - 1839 - 156 pàgines
...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...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And Dr. Adam Smith observes, that "it seldom happens that a man, in any part of his life, derives any... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 514 pàgines
...linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that BabeF cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid things in them, as well as the...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only." Still, however, I am persuaded that, if a poor-man had a little more education,... | |
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