...understand its purport and value far better than hosts of others who have read it in the Greek. "Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."* The question which these learned students superciliously answer in the negative, is — whether a man...

...have read it in the Greek. "Though a liic*should pride himself to have all the tongues that Bi " _ cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only."* The question which these learned students superciliously answer in the negative, is — whether a man...

...not with words but with things. " Though a linguist," says Milton, "should pride himself to haveill the tongues that Babel cleft the world into ; yet...nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any jeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." And yet, if we reflect upon it, we...

...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...Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned...

...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 tongues...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...

...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 the tongues...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...

...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 the tongues...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...

...And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,5 yet if he have not studied the solid things in them,...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing...

...wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a tions ; — I know that my own experience is steadily that way ; I mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing...

...and shallows " ; and observes that, " though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues Babel 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...