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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... belong properly to the science of language . Mythology , which was the bane of the ancient world , is in truth a disease of language . A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an at- tribute , has been allowed to ...
... belong properly to the science of language . Mythology , which was the bane of the ancient world , is in truth a disease of language . A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an at- tribute , has been allowed to ...
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... belong- ing to man's immaterial nature , and which are governed by the same laws . as sciences altogether physical . It is not our business to dwell on the prospects which our philosophy thus opens to our contemplation ; but we may ...
... belong- ing to man's immaterial nature , and which are governed by the same laws . as sciences altogether physical . It is not our business to dwell on the prospects which our philosophy thus opens to our contemplation ; but we may ...
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... belong to the last or theoretical stage , were attempted in phys- ical sciences long before the necessary evidence had been collected or arranged . Thus , we find that the science of language , in the only two countries where we can ...
... belong to the last or theoretical stage , were attempted in phys- ical sciences long before the necessary evidence had been collected or arranged . Thus , we find that the science of language , in the only two countries where we can ...
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... belong ; but what applies to Sanskrit and the Aryan family applies to the whole realm of human speech . Every language , without a single exception , that has as yet been cast into the crucible of compara- tive grammar , has been found ...
... belong ; but what applies to Sanskrit and the Aryan family applies to the whole realm of human speech . Every language , without a single exception , that has as yet been cast into the crucible of compara- tive grammar , has been found ...
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... belong to the Semitic family are the Berber dialects of Northern Africa , spoken on the coast from Egypt to the Atlan- tic Ocean before the invasion of the Arabs , and now pushed back towards the interior . Some other African languages ...
... belong to the Semitic family are the Berber dialects of Northern Africa , spoken on the coast from Egypt to the Atlan- tic Ocean before the invasion of the Arabs , and now pushed back towards the interior . Some other African languages ...
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