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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Page 34
... French or German . In that sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with ...
... French or German . In that sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with ...
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... French , Wallachian , and Rou- mansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ancient dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an ...
... French , Wallachian , and Rou- mansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ancient dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an ...
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... French , Provençal , and Italian only allow of plus for the same purpose : Ital . più dolce ; Prov . plus dous ; Fr. plus doux . It is by no means impossible , however , that this distinction between very , which is now used with ...
... French , Provençal , and Italian only allow of plus for the same purpose : Ital . più dolce ; Prov . plus dous ; Fr. plus doux . It is by no means impossible , however , that this distinction between very , which is now used with ...
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... French adverb . We are told by French gram- marians that in order to form adverbs we have to add the termination ment . Thus from bon , good , we form bonnement , from vrai , true , vraiment . This termination does not exist in Latin ...
... French adverb . We are told by French gram- marians that in order to form adverbs we have to add the termination ment . Thus from bon , good , we form bonnement , from vrai , true , vraiment . This termination does not exist in Latin ...
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... French vingt you have the same elements as in deux and dix ; that the sec- ond part of the French douze , twelve , represents the Latin decim in duodecim ; that the final te of trente was originally the Latin ginta in triginta , which ...
... French vingt you have the same elements as in deux and dix ; that the sec- ond part of the French douze , twelve , represents the Latin decim in duodecim ; that the final te of trente was originally the Latin ginta in triginta , which ...
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