...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...

...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 to have...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...

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

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

...of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century by asserting that though a man "have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He further abhors the old error of the university instructor who casts untrained minds into the midst...

...having all the tongues that Babel clove the world into, yet if he have not studied solid things in them, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his native dialect only." So the principal feature in the theory of the Innovators...

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...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 to have...nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yoeman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which...

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...immediately functional, for language is but an instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. 'Though a linguist should pride himself to have all...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.' English, unfortunately, did not as a language afford experience and tradition enough for all kinds...