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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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 159
by John Milton - 1845
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The Scholar in a Republic: Address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Phi ...

Wendell Phillips - 1881 - 34 pages
...., flARVAk.. . . •; y . I flRADlMTE SCHOOL OF tOUCATlON MONROE C GUTM4M " 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...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...'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...many mistakes which have made learning generally so uupleasing and so unsuccessful: first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...is but the instrument conveying lo us things useful to be known. And though n linguist should priile himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied Hie solid things in them, as well as Hie words and lexicons, he were nothing so much tc man competently...
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Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts ...

John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...is but the instrument conveying to us things |/ f useful to Ee._kngwn._And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he f'f.'^ '* have no£ studled_the solid things in rhrm as well as the words ari3 lexicons, he were nothing...
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Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, Volume 54

1947 - 404 pages
...city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty. . . . Or from On Education: And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft...into, yet if he have not studied the solid things. . . . There is much, much more to say about the Old Testament. I would like to draw out each character,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 171

1886 - 848 pages
...shallows ; " and observes that " though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues liabel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only ; " and Locke said that "schools fit us for the university rather than for the world." Commission after...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting, Volume 11

Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1903 - 428 pages
...of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century by asserting that though a man "have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He further abhors the old error of the university instructor who casts untrained minds into the midst...
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The Journal of Education, Volume 2

1877 - 600 pages
...having all the tongues that Babel clove the world into, yet if he have not studied solid things in them, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his native dialect only." So the principal feature in the theory of the Innovators...
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International Organization and Conference Series: new series]., Issues 23-28

United States. Dept. of State - 1961 - 904 pages
...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...studied the solid things in them as well as the Words & Lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteem'da learned man, as any Yeoman or Tradesman competently...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

1909 - 378 pages
...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...nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yoeman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which...
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