 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 σελίδες
...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, he were nothing so much... | |
 | 1837 - 352 σελίδες
...of our present years. Soame Jenyns. 599. Words and Things.— Though a linguist should pride himsclf 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 100 σελίδες
...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, he were nothing so much to be... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 σελίδες
...great Milton — that prodigy of learning and genius. He says, " 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... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 σελίδες
...of government.—Bentham. DXXXV. On the Study of Languages—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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 σελίδες
...the instrument conveying to us things useful to he 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, he were nothing so much... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1841 - 382 σελίδες
...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, he were nothing so much to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 σελίδες
...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, he were nothing so much... | |
 | James Booth - 1846 - 172 σελίδες
...Studies in the University of Oxford. Oxford, 1832. •(•"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... | |
 | A. R. Craig - 1847 - 408 σελίδες
...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, he were nothing so much... | |
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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... 
