often find definitions changing in the progress of events
Words and terms have, to different minds, various significations; and we
often find definitions changing in the progress of events. Bailey says
learning is 'skill in languages or sciences.' To this, Walker adds what
he calls 'literature,' and 'skill in anything, good or bad.' Dr. Webster
enlarges the meaning of the word still more, and says, 'Learning is the
knowledge of principles or facts received by instruction or study;
acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature;
erudition; literature; science; knowledge acquired by experience,
experiment, or observation.' Milton gives us a rhetorical definition in
a negative form, which is of equal value, at 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 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
only.'--'Language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to
be known.'
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