 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...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 that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and Lexicons,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 574 pages
...like this species of heresy, in his « Small Tractate of Education :" his words were these — " 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 in them, as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | 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 that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1821 - 726 pages
...of Education, " had expressed himself in the following forcible and beautiful language : — " 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 in them, as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...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 that Babel -cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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 that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts — Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. 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 Its the words ami lexicons,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.—Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. 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,... | |
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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... 
