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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... "
Essays and Addresses, 1900-1903 - Page 240
by Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 296 pages
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory Notices

English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 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...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful:...
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The Oxford University Magazine and Review, Issue 1

University of Oxford - 1869 - 314 pages
...schoolmasters and pedants of his day, is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...the solid things in them, as well as the words and idioms, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently...
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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...all discreet teaching. Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all...so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He would allow an hour and a half, ere they ate, at noon...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 171

Literature - 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 - Engineering - 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

Education - 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 - Congresses and conventions - 1961 - 904 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...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

Literature - 1909 - 378 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...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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The Twentieth Century, Volume 66

Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1132 pages
...after Wisdom i to thai Language it fiui Ihf. Instrument conveying hi tu things usefull to be known. And though a Linguist should pride himself to have all the Tongues that Babel oleft the world Into, yet, if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the Words and...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...immediately functional, for language is but an instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. 'Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.' English, unfortunately, did not as a language afford experience and tradition enough for all kinds...
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