| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 páginas
...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 any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And that the knowledge of the languages which is acquired in general, by boys... | |
| William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1839 - 590 páginas
...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 any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
| George Combe - 1839 - 156 páginas
...linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And Dr. Adam Smith observes, that "it seldom happens that a man, in any part... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 382 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...tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Still, however, I am persuaded that, if a poor man had a little more education, it would be no bar... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid thing« in them, as well as the wordi ! and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed ! a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compe-1 :ently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence tpper | the many mistakes which have made learning... | |
| Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 páginas
...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 any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his rnother dialect only. Hence appear th« many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 586 páginas
...linguist should pride himself to have all that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compein his mother dialect only. Hence appear the... | |
| James Booth - 1846 - 172 páginas
...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 any yeoman or tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
| William Hosmer - 1847 - 278 páginas
...though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel deft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."* It is therefore to the relative importance of literature that we must ascribe... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues ;hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he n'd by thee, and this delicious place For us too large, where thy a lexicon», he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently... | |
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