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... Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding - Page 43by Basil Montagu - 1849Full view - About this book
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| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...industrious after wisdom ; so that 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 ;hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
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| John Minter Morgan - 1849 - 250 pages
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| John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 244 pages
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| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...forth aught that sorts not with their unchewed notions and suppositions. ON THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES. — Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
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| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
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| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongue« that liabel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the word« and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
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