 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...  Papers for the Schoolmaster - Page 971852Full view - About this book
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...Milton) should pride himself to have all the tongues which Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and the lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently... | |
 | Ireland - 1853 - 1074 pages
...wrote — " And 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...man 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... | |
 | Claude Marcel - Foreign Language Study - 1853 - 458 pages
...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...man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."t Those languages should be preferred which afford the most abundant means... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...language, linguist. " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues thnt Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid things...were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as many yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." — Milton. Lin quo, I leave;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...himself to have all the tongues that Uabel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the »olid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons,...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | Eliza C. Lawton - Education - 1854 - 56 pages
...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...man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." The study of history, as it forms a part of the present school exercise of... | |
 | Eliza C. Lawton - Education - 1854 - 60 pages
...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...man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." The study of history, as it forms a part of the present school exercise of... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...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...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear liie many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 600 pages
...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...man, as any yeoman or tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. — Milton. HUMILITY. — When the two goats, on a narrow bridge, met over... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...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 well as the...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
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