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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... Greek ge , land , ground , earth , and metron , meas- ure . Botany , the science of plants , was originally the science of botane , which in Greek does not mean a plant in general , but fodder , from boskein , to feed . The science of ...
... Greek ge , land , ground , earth , and metron , meas- ure . Botany , the science of plants , was originally the science of botane , which in Greek does not mean a plant in general , but fodder , from boskein , to feed . The science of ...
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... Greek metron , our metre . Now if the moon was originally called by the farmer the measurer , the ruler of days , and weeks , and seasons , the regulator of the tides , the lord of their festivals , and the herald of their public ...
... Greek metron , our metre . Now if the moon was originally called by the farmer the measurer , the ruler of days , and weeks , and seasons , the regulator of the tides , the lord of their festivals , and the herald of their public ...
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... Greek eikati . in Latin viginti . in English twenty . Now here we see , first , that the Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin , are only local modifications of one and the same original word ; whereas the English twenty is a new compound , the ...
... Greek eikati . in Latin viginti . in English twenty . Now here we see , first , that the Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin , are only local modifications of one and the same original word ; whereas the English twenty is a new compound , the ...
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... Greek eikati , owe their origin to the same process . ― Now consider the immense difference - I do not mean in sound , but in character between two such words as the Chinese eúl - shi , two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of ...
... Greek eikati , owe their origin to the same process . ― Now consider the immense difference - I do not mean in sound , but in character between two such words as the Chinese eúl - shi , two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of ...
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... Greek ever thought of learning a foreign language . Why should he ? He divided the whole world into Greeks and Barbarians , and he would have felt himself degraded by adopting either the dress or the manners or the language of his ...
... Greek ever thought of learning a foreign language . Why should he ? He divided the whole world into Greeks and Barbarians , and he would have felt himself degraded by adopting either the dress or the manners or the language of his ...
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