Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 1C. Scribner, 1869 |
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... Chinese are as important , nay , for the so- lution of some of our problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . We do not want to know languages , we want to know lan- guage ; what language is , how it ...
... Chinese are as important , nay , for the so- lution of some of our problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . We do not want to know languages , we want to know lan- guage ; what language is , how it ...
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... china , 1 Lectures on the English Language , by G. P. Marsh : New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much careful research and are full of valuable observations . 2 Marsh , p . 532 , note . lilae , and ...
... china , 1 Lectures on the English Language , by G. P. Marsh : New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much careful research and are full of valuable observations . 2 Marsh , p . 532 , note . lilae , and ...
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... Chinese , for instance , ten is expressed by shi . It would be impossible to change shi in the slight- est way without making it unfit to express ten . If instead of shi we pronounced tsi , this would mean seven , but not ten . But now ...
... Chinese , for instance , ten is expressed by shi . It would be impossible to change shi in the slight- est way without making it unfit to express ten . If instead of shi we pronounced tsi , this would mean seven , but not ten . But now ...
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... Chinese take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shi , twenty . The same caution which applied to shĩ , applies again to eúl - shi . As soon as you change it , by adding or dropping a single letter , it is no longer ...
... Chinese take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shi , twenty . The same caution which applied to shĩ , applies again to eúl - shi . As soon as you change it , by adding or dropping a single letter , it is no longer ...
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... Chinese eúl - shi , two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of words which we meet with in Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . In Chinese there is neither too much , nor too little . The word speaks for itself , and requires no ...
... Chinese eúl - shi , two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of words which we meet with in Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . In Chinese there is neither too much , nor too little . The word speaks for itself , and requires no ...
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