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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... Roman , the Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , which were gradually allowed to assume a divine per- sonality never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a name of the dawn before she became a ...
... Roman , the Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , which were gradually allowed to assume a divine per- sonality never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a name of the dawn before she became a ...
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... Roman life ; when parch- ments were made to disclose , by chemical means , the erased thoughts of Grecian thinkers ; when the tombs of Egypt were ransacked for their sacred contents , and the palaces of Babylon and Nineveh forced to ...
... Roman life ; when parch- ments were made to disclose , by chemical means , the erased thoughts of Grecian thinkers ; when the tombs of Egypt were ransacked for their sacred contents , and the palaces of Babylon and Nineveh forced to ...
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... Roman citizenship to men , but not to words . " A sim- ilar anecdote is told of the German Emperor Sigis- mund . When presiding at the Council of Costnitz , he addressed the assembly in a Latin speech , exhort- ing them to eradicate the ...
... Roman citizenship to men , but not to words . " A sim- ilar anecdote is told of the German Emperor Sigis- mund . When presiding at the Council of Costnitz , he addressed the assembly in a Latin speech , exhort- ing them to eradicate the ...
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... Romans , in order to carry on any intercourse with the natives , had to employ a hundred and thirty interpreters . This is probably an exaggeration ; but we have no reason to doubt the statement of Strabo , who speaks of seventy tribes ...
... Romans , in order to carry on any intercourse with the natives , had to employ a hundred and thirty interpreters . This is probably an exaggeration ; but we have no reason to doubt the statement of Strabo , who speaks of seventy tribes ...
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... Romans could not make out without difficulty the language of the ancient treaties between Rome and Carthage , Horace ad- inits ( Ep . ii . 1 , 86 ) , that he could not understand the old Salian poems , and he hints that no one else ...
... Romans could not make out without difficulty the language of the ancient treaties between Rome and Carthage , Horace ad- inits ( Ep . ii . 1 , 86 ) , that he could not understand the old Salian poems , and he hints that no one else ...
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