 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...any one can learn or speak as he should do by rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident and the common use of the people....that speaks them well has no other rule but that, nor any thing to trust to but his memoiy, and the habit of speaking after the fashion, learned from those... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 492 pages
...one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule but that : nor any thing to trust to but his memory, and the... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy, Modern - 1823 - 488 pages
...one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule but that; nor any thing to trust to but his memory, and the... | |
 | Classical education - 1829 - 188 pages
...the " rules of grammar. Languages were made not " by rules or art, but by accident, and the com" mon use of the people. And he that speaks " them well, has no other rule but that ; nor any " thing to trust to but his memory, and the habit " of speaking after the fashion learned from... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - School management and organization - 1831 - 198 pages
...one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule but that; nor any thing to trust to but his memory, and the... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 pages
...one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule but that; nor anything to trust to but his memory, and the... | |
 | Robert Blair M. Binning - 1849 - 92 pages
...I subjoin the opinion of the illustrious Locke on this subject. " Languages were made, not by rules of art, " but by accident, and the common use of the " people ; and he that will speak them well has " no other rule but that; nor any thing to trust "to but his memory, and the... | |
 | John Johnston - Physics - 1858 - 408 pages
...against, but plainly for, this way of learning a language. The languages are only to be lenrrted by ROTE ; and he that speaks them well has no other rule but that." la teaching classes by oral dictation, these works present advantages that no others do.. ABSTRACTS... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1859 - 562 pages
...against, but plainly for, this way of learning a language. The languages .are only to bo leaned by ROTE: and he that speaks them well has no other rule but that." In teaching classes by oral dictation, these works present advantages that no others do. ABSTRACTS... | |
 | Sallust, James Hamilton - Rome - 1860 - 336 pages
...against, but plainly /or, this way of learning a language. The languages are only to he learnt/I by ROTE; and he that speaks them well has no other rule but that." la teaching classes by vral dictation, these works present advantages that no others do* ABSTRACTS... | |
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And I would fain have any one name to me that tongue, that any one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well,... 
