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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Page 40
... express statements of the Bible . For in the Bible it is not the Creator who gives names to all things , but Adam . " Out of the ground , " we read , " the Lord God formed every beast of the field , and every fowl of the air ; and ...
... express statements of the Bible . For in the Bible it is not the Creator who gives names to all things , but Adam . " Out of the ground , " we read , " the Lord God formed every beast of the field , and every fowl of the air ; and ...
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... express our meaning , it might seem to follow almost by necessity that language should contain neither more nor less ... express ten . If instead of shi we pronounced tsi , this would mean seven , but not ten . But now , suppose we ...
... express our meaning , it might seem to follow almost by necessity that language should contain neither more nor less ... express ten . If instead of shi we pronounced tsi , this would mean seven , but not ten . But now , suppose we ...
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... express double the quantity of ten , twice ten , or twenty . We should in Chinese take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shi , twenty . The same caution which applied to shĩ , applies again to eúl - shi . As soon as ...
... express double the quantity of ten , twice ten , or twenty . We should in Chinese take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shi , twenty . The same caution which applied to shĩ , applies again to eúl - shi . As soon as ...
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... express the genitive , the choice of illo , instead of any other pronoun , to express the article , might seem to prove that man acted as a free agent in the for- mation of language . But it is not so . No single in- dividual could ...
... express the genitive , the choice of illo , instead of any other pronoun , to express the article , might seem to prove that man acted as a free agent in the for- mation of language . But it is not so . No single in- dividual could ...
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... express oneself in any but one's own language . The Poles called their neighbors , the Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish name Niemiec to the Austrians . As ...
... express oneself in any but one's own language . The Poles called their neighbors , the Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish name Niemiec to the Austrians . As ...
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