 Upon which that which happened to me, may seem strange, though it be true ; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words.  The Description of Greece - Page viby Pausanias - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1859 - 636 pages
...reading of Latin authors. Upon which that which happened to me, may seem strange, though it be true ; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | Plutarch - 1875 - 634 pages
...reading of Latin authors. Upon which that which happened to me, may seem strange, though it be true ; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1881 - 948 pages
...rending of Latin authors. Upon which thut which happened to me, may seem strange, though il be true ; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | Shorthand - 1894 - 458 pages
...reading of Latin authors. Upon which that which happened to me may seem strange, though it be true ; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things, I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1896 - 466 pages
...reading of Latin authors. Upon which that which happened to me may seem strange, though it be true; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | American Philological Association - Philology - 1889 - 670 pages
...and that he acquired a knowledge of the language by a method most unique and quite incredible, for " it was not so much by the knowledge of words that I came to the understanding of things, but by my experience of things, I was enabled to follow the meaning of words . . . and so in this _/{//>&... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1909 - 420 pages
...reading of Latin authors. Upon which that which happened to me, may seem strange, though it be true; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 430 pages
...reading of Latin authors. Upon which that which happened to me, may seem strange, though it be true; for it was not so much by the knowledge of words, that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words. But to appreciate the graceful... | |
 | Lamar Taney Beman - Classical education - 1921 - 300 pages
...tongue. There is much suggestion in the words of Plutarch upon his own experience in learning Latin : "It was not so much by the knowledge of words that I came to the understanding of things, as by my experience of things I was enabled to follow the meaning of words." WHY I HAVE A BAD EDUCATION... | |
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