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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... human speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in Eng- land , France , and Germany , deserved a larger share of public sympathy than they had hitherto received ; and it seemed to me , as far as I could judge , that the ...
... human speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in Eng- land , France , and Germany , deserved a larger share of public sympathy than they had hitherto received ; and it seemed to me , as far as I could judge , that the ...
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... human art , it would seem to lift the human artist almost to the level of a divine creator . If it be the gift of God , it is God's greatest gift ; for through it God spake to man and man speaks to God in wor- ship , prayer , and ...
... human art , it would seem to lift the human artist almost to the level of a divine creator . If it be the gift of God , it is God's greatest gift ; for through it God spake to man and man speaks to God in wor- ship , prayer , and ...
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... human knowledge have had to pay more dearly . ever There is a certain uniformity in the history of most tribe resea Stone " wand The of h which impr plane found tions geom meas the the ་ a pla The tolog sciences . If we read such works ...
... human knowledge have had to pay more dearly . ever There is a certain uniformity in the history of most tribe resea Stone " wand The of h which impr plane found tions geom meas the the ་ a pla The tolog sciences . If we read such works ...
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... human inge- nuity in ages to come was supplied by the pressing wants of a patriarchal and semi - barbarous society . The names of some of the most ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tale . Geometry , which at present ...
... human inge- nuity in ages to come was supplied by the pressing wants of a patriarchal and semi - barbarous society . The names of some of the most ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tale . Geometry , which at present ...
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... different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the negro . Lastly , the problem of the position of man on the threshold between the worlds of matter and spirit has of 22 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
... different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the negro . Lastly , the problem of the position of man on the threshold between the worlds of matter and spirit has of 22 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
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