 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1859 - 376 pages
...least, with any authority yet cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " 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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...better than hosts of others who have read it in the Greek. "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... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...himself to have all the tongues that Bi " _ 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... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 pages
...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 solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed... | |
 | 1868 - 970 pages
...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 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... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1869 - 314 pages
...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 idioms, he were nothing so much to be esteemed... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1871 - 932 pages
...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 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... | |
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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... 
