The Science of Language: Founded on Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1861 and 1863, Volume 1C. Scribner's sons, 1891 - 744 pages |
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... on Comparative Philology , will , I believe , hold its place for ever as an independent science , and some of the most eminent philosophers of the day have given it the warmest welcome . That it is as essential to PREFACE . vii.
... on Comparative Philology , will , I believe , hold its place for ever as an independent science , and some of the most eminent philosophers of the day have given it the warmest welcome . That it is as essential to PREFACE . vii.
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... given offence , to insert a new fact , or to allude to a new theory . Although my general views on the Science of Language have remained unchanged , the mere number of pages will show how many additions have been made , while a careful ...
... given offence , to insert a new fact , or to allude to a new theory . Although my general views on the Science of Language have remained unchanged , the mere number of pages will show how many additions have been made , while a careful ...
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... given up positions which they had proved to be no longer tenable ; in others , I have indicated , by a few additional words , that I was pre- pared for their objections , and able to meet them ; in others , again , the fact that I have ...
... given up positions which they had proved to be no longer tenable ; in others , I have indicated , by a few additional words , that I was pre- pared for their objections , and able to meet them ; in others , again , the fact that I have ...
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... given to it in England , France , and Germany are so vague and varying that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Compara- tive Philology ...
... given to it in England , France , and Germany are so vague and varying that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Compara- tive Philology ...
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... given to single stars or constel- lations clearly show that they were invented by the ploughers of the sea and of the land . The moon , for instance , the golden hand on the dark dial of heaven , was called by them the Measurer -- the ...
... given to single stars or constel- lations clearly show that they were invented by the ploughers of the sea and of the land . The moon , for instance , the golden hand on the dark dial of heaven , was called by them the Measurer -- the ...
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agglutinative ancient Anglo-Saxon Arabic Aramaic Aryan Aryan family Aryan languages Aryas Avesta become Bopp Brahmans branch brutes called Celtic century Chinese classification common origin Comparative Grammar Comparative Philology consonant dative declension derived dialects dictionary distinction doubt elements English express Finnic formal French genealogical genitive German Gothic grammarians grammatical forms Greek growth guage Hebrew human speech idea India inflectional inscriptions instance interjections Italian Latin Lectures Leibniz likewise literary literature locative look means modern Mongolic nature nouns Old High-German origin of language Pehlevi Persian philosophers phonetic corruption plough plural Pott Prâkrit predicative preterite primitive pronouns race radical Roman Rome root Samoyedic Sanskrit Saxon scholars science of language Semitic Semitic languages sense Slavonic sound speak spoken stage supposed Tataric terminations Teutonic tion traced back translation tribes Tungusic Turanian Turanian languages Turkic Turkish Ugric Ulfilas Veda verb vowels words Zend καὶ
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Page 14 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs, for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any other general signs.
Page 30 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsover Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 224 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 508 - The neighing of a horse, the lowing of a cow, the barking of a dog, the purring of a cat, sneezing, coughing, groaning, shrieking, and every other involuntary convulsion with oral sound, have almost as good a title to be called parts of speech as interjections have...
Page 512 - of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns substantive, would probably be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from the societies of men, would naturally begin to form that language by which they would endeavour to make their mutual wants intelligible to each other by uttering certain sounds whenever they meant to denote certain objects. Those objects only which...
Page 526 - If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.
Page 477 - ... from the known principles of human nature, how all its various parts might gradually have arisen, the mind is not only to a certain degree satisfied, but a check is given to that indolent philosophy, which refers to a miracle, whatever appearances, both in the natural and moral worlds, it is unable to explain.
Page 529 - ... he possessed likewise the faculty of giving more articulate expression to the rational conceptions of his mind. That faculty was not of his own making. It was an instinct, an instinct of the mind, as irresistible as any other instinct.
Page 514 - Could we suppose any person living on the banks of the Thames so ignorant as not to know the general word river but to be acquainted only with the particular word Thames, if he was brought to any other river, would he not readily call it a Thames?
Page 401 - What distinguishes the Turanian languages is, that in them the conjugation and declension can still be taken to pieces; and although the terminations have by no means always retained their significative power as independent words, they are felt as modificatory syllables, and as distinct from the roots to which they are appended.