...and pedants of his day, is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues...the solid things in them, as well as the words and idioms, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently...

...discreet teaching. Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues...so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He would allow an hour and a half, ere they ate, at noon...

...discreet teaching. Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues...so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He would allow an hour and a half, ere they ate, at noon...

...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...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only ; " and Locke said that "schools fit us for the university rather than for the...

...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,...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." He further abhors the old error of the university instructor who casts untrained...

...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...

...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 all the Tongues...studied the solid things in them as well as the Words & Lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteem'da learned man, as any Yeoman or Tradesman competently...

...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 all the tongues...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 the tongues...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.' English, unfortunately, did not as a language afford experience and tradition...