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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... ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tale . Geometry , which at present declares itself free from all sensuous impressions , and treats of its points and lines and planes as purely ideal conceptions , not to be con ...
... ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tale . Geometry , which at present declares itself free from all sensuous impressions , and treats of its points and lines and planes as purely ideal conceptions , not to be con ...
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... ancient philosophers as a mere illusion , as an agglomerate of atoms , or as the work of an evil and interpret its pages as the power , and wisdom , and love . study of nature a new character . has collected his facts , and after the ...
... ancient philosophers as a mere illusion , as an agglomerate of atoms , or as the work of an evil and interpret its pages as the power , and wisdom , and love . study of nature a new character . has collected his facts , and after the ...
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... ancient Greek philoso- pher , by Philolaus , the Pythagorean . No doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if you like , a happy intuition . Nevertheless , if we may trust the words of Copernicus , it is ...
... ancient Greek philoso- pher , by Philolaus , the Pythagorean . No doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if you like , a happy intuition . Nevertheless , if we may trust the words of Copernicus , it is ...
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... ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated simply as a means . The classical scholar uses Greek or Latin , the oriental scholar Hebrew or San- " 14 23 " 1 N skrit , or ...
... ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated simply as a means . The classical scholar uses Greek or Latin , the oriental scholar Hebrew or San- " 14 23 " 1 N skrit , or ...
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... ancient literature or in the countless variety of living lan- guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but ...
... ancient literature or in the countless variety of living lan- guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but ...
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