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... REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON. - Page 151by Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1911 - 304 pages
...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 2 as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
| 1911 - 202 pages
...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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
| Benjamin Dumville - 1912 - 420 pages
...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 or Tradesman competently wise in his Mother Dialect... | |
| Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1912 - 314 pages
...have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things 1 in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." In... | |
| Juan Luis Vives - 1913 - 494 pages
...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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
| Modern Language Association of America - 1913 - 818 pages
...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 or tradesman competently wise in the mother dialect... | |
| 1913 - 974 pages
...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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
| Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1915 - 574 pages
...words with lamentable \ construction"; and says of the pupil, "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 as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And... | |
| Ernest Carroll Moore - 1915 - 376 pages
...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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
| Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1915 - 550 pages
...a few words with lamentable construction"; and says of the pupil, "if he have not ?tudied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And... | |
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