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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... Latin name for the Pleiades is Vergilia , from virga , a sprout or twig . This name was given to them by the Italian husbandman , because in Italy , where they became visible about May , they marked the return of summer.2 Another ...
... Latin name for the Pleiades is Vergilia , from virga , a sprout or twig . This name was given to them by the Italian husbandman , because in Italy , where they became visible about May , they marked the return of summer.2 Another ...
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... Latin was changed into Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Provençal , French , Wallachian , and Rou- mansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ...
... Latin was changed into Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Provençal , French , Wallachian , and Rou- mansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ...
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... Latin . We can read Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and Chaucer ; but , when we come to the English of the thirteenth century , we can but guess its meaning , and we fail even in this with works pre ...
... Latin . We can read Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and Chaucer ; but , when we come to the English of the thirteenth century , we can but guess its meaning , and we fail even in this with works pre ...
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... Latin , or , if it were not , it would soon be so . Marcel- lus , more of a grammarian than a courtier , replied , 66 Capito is a liar ; for , Cæsar , thou canst give the Roman citizenship to men , but not to words . " A sim- ilar ...
... Latin , or , if it were not , it would soon be so . Marcel- lus , more of a grammarian than a courtier , replied , 66 Capito is a liar ; for , Cæsar , thou canst give the Roman citizenship to men , but not to words . " A sim- ilar ...
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... Latin , or in Sanskrit ? We do not say two - ten in English , nor duo - decem in Latin , nor dvi - dasa in San- skrit . We find1 in Sanskrit vin'sati . in Greek eikati . in Latin viginti . in English twenty . Now here we see , first ...
... Latin , or in Sanskrit ? We do not say two - ten in English , nor duo - decem in Latin , nor dvi - dasa in San- skrit . We find1 in Sanskrit vin'sati . in Greek eikati . in Latin viginti . in English twenty . Now here we see , first ...
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