...linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues thnt Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had not studied the solid things in them as well as the...were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as many yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." — Milton. Lin quo, I leave;...

...undefiled," which subsists in the writings of our best authors. With regard to languages, Milton has said, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." The study of history, as it forms a part of the present school exercise of girls, is greatly deficient...

...undefiled," which subsists in the writings of our best authors. With regard to languages, Milton has said, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." The study of history, as it forms a part of the present school exercise of girls, is greatly deficient...

...these chains, and reason begins to dictate the education of youth." Аs Milton truthfully remarks, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...

...experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature, as the use of man's life. — Bacon. WOBDS AND THINGS. — Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. — Milton. HUMILITY. — When the two goats, on a narrow bridge, met over a deep stream, was not lie...

...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...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear liie many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful...

...4., " Present System of Education." 3* 1 TH. WYSE. Education reform. though a linguist should prids himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." ' Those languages should be preferred which afford the most abundant means of gaining knowledge. A...

...these acquirements is that which is founded on what is common. " Though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that...world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid," which involve assuredly the common, " things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing...

...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,8 yet if he have not studied the solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were...

...is of equal value, at least, with any authority yet cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." " Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." This is kindred to the...