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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... animal kingdom have been pushed for- ward , so that at one time the line of demarcation be- tween animal and man seemed ... animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties ...
... animal kingdom have been pushed for- ward , so that at one time the line of demarcation be- tween animal and man seemed ... animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties ...
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... animal has been discovered in the possession of lan- guage , " not even the beaver , who of all the animals we know , that are not , like the orang - outangs , of our own species , comes nearest to us in sagacity . " Locke , who is ...
... animal has been discovered in the possession of lan- guage , " not even the beaver , who of all the animals we know , that are not , like the orang - outangs , of our own species , comes nearest to us in sagacity . " Locke , who is ...
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... animal , I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities . " Owen , as quoted by Darwin Origin of Species , p . 414 . th th Ter centric point of view , laws were discovered determin- ing 26 ...
... animal , I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities . " Owen , as quoted by Darwin Origin of Species , p . 414 . th th Ter centric point of view , laws were discovered determin- ing 26 ...
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... animal kingdom the same order and purpose which pervades the endless variety of plants or any other realm of nature . He learns , if he did not know it before , that things were not created at random or in a lump , but that there is a ...
... animal kingdom the same order and purpose which pervades the endless variety of plants or any other realm of nature . He learns , if he did not know it before , that things were not created at random or in a lump , but that there is a ...
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... animals brought home by unscientific travellers . If it were necessary for the comparative philologist to ac- quire a critical or practical acquaintance with all the 1 Sir J. Stoddart , Glossology , p . 22 . before but the dred the E B ...
... animals brought home by unscientific travellers . If it were necessary for the comparative philologist to ac- quire a critical or practical acquaintance with all the 1 Sir J. Stoddart , Glossology , p . 22 . before but the dred the E B ...
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