 | Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...inftrument convaying to us things ufeful to be known, And though a linguift fhould pride him* felfe to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if. he have not ftudied the folid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing fo much to be efteemed... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...inftrument convaying .ing to us things ufeful to be known* And though a linguifl fliould pride himfelfe to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not-ftudied the folid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing fo much to... | |
 | Peter Williams - 1785 - 374 pages
...obferver. And befides, " fuppofe a Linguift (as * Milton ftrongly exprefles it) was to pride himfelf tq have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet,. if he had not ftudied the folid things in them as well as the words arid lexicons, he were nothing fb much... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...conveying to us things ufeful to be known. And VoL. XII. X though though a linguift fhould pride himfelf to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he had not ftudied the folid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing fo much... | |
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...foreign language is only an instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a lingufet should pride 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... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1803 - 266 pages
...the inftrument conveying to us things ufeful to be. known. And tho' a linguift lliouid pride himfelf to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he had not ihidied the folid things in them as well at. the words and lexicons, he were nothing to be... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...the inftrument conveying to us things ufeful to be known. And though a linguift fhould pride himfelf to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not fiudied the folid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing fo much to be .efteemed... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...A dictionary; s book teaching the fignification of words. — Though a linguift mould pride himfelf to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if lie had not ihidied the folid things in them, as well as the words and lexicon], he were nothing lo... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself...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... | |
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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... 
