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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... ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology , Phonology , and Glos- sology . In France it has received the convenient , INTRODUCTION . 13.
... ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology , Phonology , and Glos- sology . In France it has received the convenient , INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... idea , and have laid down their lives for a word ; and many of these problems which have agitated the world from the earliest to our own times , belong properly to the science of language . Mythology , which was the bane of the ancient ...
... idea , and have laid down their lives for a word ; and many of these problems which have agitated the world from the earliest to our own times , belong properly to the science of language . Mythology , which was the bane of the ancient ...
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... ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes . For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general signs for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the ...
... ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes . For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general signs for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the ...
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... idea of rev- olutionizing the heavens was suggested to Copernicus , as he tells us himself , by an ancient Greek philoso- pher , by Philolaus , the Pythagorean . No doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if ...
... idea of rev- olutionizing the heavens was suggested to Copernicus , as he tells us himself , by an ancient Greek philoso- pher , by Philolaus , the Pythagorean . No doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if ...
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... ideas . This view of the origin of language was so power- fully advocated by the leading philosophers of the last century , that it has retained an undisputed currency even among those who , on almost every other point , are strongly ...
... ideas . This view of the origin of language was so power- fully advocated by the leading philosophers of the last century , that it has retained an undisputed currency even among those who , on almost every other point , are strongly ...
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