...our best authors. With regard to languages, Milton has said, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." The study of history, as it forms a part of the present school exercise of girls, is greatly deficient...

...nature, as the use of man's life. — Bacon. WOBDS AND THINGS. — Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...competently wise in his mother dialect only. — Milton. HUMILITY. — When the two goats, on a narrow bridge, met over a deep stream, was not lie the wiser...

...and the slaves of their own vaunts. — Lord Bacon. DCCCCLXV. Though a Linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear liie many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful...

...dictate the education of youth." Аs Milton truthfully remarks, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman, competently wise in his mother dialect only. We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...

...Present System of Education." 3* 1 TH. WYSE. Education reform. though a linguist should prids himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." ' Those languages should be preferred which afford the most abundant means of gaining knowledge. A...

...And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,8 yet if he have not studied the solid things in them,...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing...

...that which is founded on what is common. " Though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet, if he have not studied the solid," which involve assuredly the common, " things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing...

...least, with any authority yet cited. " And though a linguist," says Milton, " should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only." " Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known." This is kindred to the...

...on education, when referring to the physical sciences, that " the linguist, who should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world...esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his mother's dialect." Yet ages have rolled on since this oracular declaration,...

...linguist 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, Jie were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in...