 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...and the slaves of their own vaunts — Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. 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 Its the words ami lexicons, he were nothing so much to be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pagina’s
...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 esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pagina’s
...the above passage very much coincide with those of Milton. " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the .•in/til tllings in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much... | |
 | George Combe - 1834 - 144 pagina’s
...himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this 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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pagina’s
...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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
 | James Simpson - 1834 - 350 pagina’s
...himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft this world into, yet, if he has 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 or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagina’s
...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 to be esteemed... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pagina’s
...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 to be esteemed... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pagina’s
...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 to be esteemed... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pagina’s
...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 to be esteemed... | |
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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... 
