 ... had locked up their religion in a foreign tongue, they would take care not to lose the key. This gave an importance to the learned languages ; and every scholar could not only read, but wrote and disputed in Latin, which without such a motive would...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 292edited by - 1773Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1773 - 244 pages
...their religion in a foreign tongue, they would take care not to lofe the key. This gave an importance to the learned languages ; and every fcholar could...ftudied than the Chinefe. And at a time when the modern languaH get ges of Europe were yet unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great ufe as a kind of univerfal... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1792 - 442 pages
...their religion in a foreign tongue, they would take care not to lofe the key. This gave an importance to the learned languages; and every fcholar could...would probably have been no more ftudied than the Chineie* And at a time when the modern lanH guage* guages of Europe were yet unformed and barbarous,... | |
 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1796 - 518 pages
...religion, in a foreign ' tongue, they would take care not to lofe the key. This ' gave an importance to the learned languages; and every ' fcholar could...time when the modern languages of Europe were yet c unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great ufe as a kind '-of univerfal tongue, by which learned... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...disputed in Latin, which without such a motive would probably have been no more studied than the Chinese. And, at a time when the modern languages of Europe...were yet unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue, by which learned men might converse and correspond with each other.*... | |
 | Silvester Palmer - 360 pages
...'motive, would probably, have been no more studied than the Chinese ; and at a time, when the modem languages of Europe were yet unformed and barbarous, latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue, by which reamed men might converse and correspond with each other.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 484 pages
...disputed in Latin, which without such a motive would probably have been no more studied than the Chinese. And at a time when the modern. languages of Europe...were yet unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue, by which learned men might converse and correspond with each other.... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Letitia - 1825 - 494 pages
...disputed in Latin, which without such a motive would probably have been no more studied than the Chinese. And at a time when the modern languages of Europe...were yet unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue, by which learned men might converse and correspond with each other.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 417 pages
...disputed in Latin, which without such a motive would probably have been no more studied than the Chinese. And at a time when the modern languages of Europe were yet un200 formed and barbarous, Latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue, by which learned... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1874 - 488 pages
...Latin, which without such a motive would probably have been no more studied than the Chinese. And at the time when the modern languages of Europe were yet unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue by which learned men might converse and correspond with each other.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Authors, English - 1874 - 484 pages
...Latin, which without such a motive would probably have been no more studied than the Chinese. And at the time when the modern languages of Europe were yet unformed and barbarous, Latin was of great use as a kind of universal tongue by which learned men might converse and correspond with each other.... | |
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