 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...  REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON. - Page 151by Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | George Combe - Education - 1839 - 156 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1841 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...himself to have all the tourne* hat Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have nvt itudied the solid lile in su so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman compeently wise in his mother dialect... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...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 Booth - Business and education - 1846 - 172 pages
...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... | |
 | A. R. Craig - Classical education - 1847 - 408 pages
...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 a yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Christian sociology - 1849 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...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... | |
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