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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... facts and laws of nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the practical result of their labors , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless ...
... facts and laws of nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the practical result of their labors , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless ...
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... facts rises to a scientific knowledge of facts as soon as the mind discovers beneath the multiplicity of single ... fact to law ; we discover thought , order , and purpose per- vading the whole realm of nature , and we perceive the ...
... facts rises to a scientific knowledge of facts as soon as the mind discovers beneath the multiplicity of single ... fact to law ; we discover thought , order , and purpose per- vading the whole realm of nature , and we perceive the ...
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... fact that plants in every part of the world belonged to one great system was established once for all ; and even in later systems most of his classes and divisions have been pre- served , because the conformation of the reproductive ...
... fact that plants in every part of the world belonged to one great system was established once for all ; and even in later systems most of his classes and divisions have been pre- served , because the conformation of the reproductive ...
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... fact and every new system have confirmed his faith . The object of classification is clear . We understand things if we can comprehend them ; that is to say , if we can grasp and hold together single facts , connect isolated impressions ...
... fact and every new system have confirmed his faith . The object of classification is clear . We understand things if we can comprehend them ; that is to say , if we can grasp and hold together single facts , connect isolated impressions ...
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... facts , and after the classifier has placed them in order , the student asks what is the origin and what is the meaning of all this ? and he tries to soar , by means of induction , or sometimes even of divina- tion , into regions not ...
... facts , and after the classifier has placed them in order , the student asks what is the origin and what is the meaning of all this ? and he tries to soar , by means of induction , or sometimes even of divina- tion , into regions not ...
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