 | 1803 - 456 pages
...lingufet 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...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear so many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasant... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...languages of those people who have at any time been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...those people •who have, at any time, been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. " Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful... | |
 | 1820 - 606 pages
...language of those people who have at any time been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother's dialect only. in. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 pages
...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...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother's dialect only. in. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 574 pages
...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...man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in hit mother dialect only." However, without dwelling upon theoretical opinions, he would quote a practical... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1821 - 724 pages
...to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid tilings vp w 6 "#y +O 8 Vڋ "5 \ 5 u B Zj5.O G繧 y^Z Z ...5u 6A _ u 4 2 >Ƀ v:Mj _ .V dHR r_ Fh mother-dialect only." — Still however, he was persuaded that if a poor man had a little more education,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1821 - 726 pages
...Tractate of Education, " had expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language : — " And though a linguist should pride himself to have...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... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...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 that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he had not studied the solid things in them as"well as the words an<j lexicons, lie were were nothing... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...languages of those people who at any time have been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful;... | |
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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... 
