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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... impossible in a course of nine lectures to give more than a very general survey of it ; and as one of the greatest charms of this science consists in the minuteness of the analysis by which each language , each dialect , each word ...
... impossible in a course of nine lectures to give more than a very general survey of it ; and as one of the greatest charms of this science consists in the minuteness of the analysis by which each language , each dialect , each word ...
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... impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does not wish to speak the Kachikal lan- guage , of which a professorship was lately founded in the University of ...
... impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does not wish to speak the Kachikal lan- guage , of which a professorship was lately founded in the University of ...
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... impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can hardly be less than nine hun- dred . That this vast field should never have excited the curiosity of the natural philosopher before the beginning of our ...
... impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can hardly be less than nine hun- dred . That this vast field should never have excited the curiosity of the natural philosopher before the beginning of our ...
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... impossible . There is apparently a very small difference between much and very , but you can hardly ever put one in the place of the other . You can say , " I am very happy , " but not " I am much happy , " though you may say " I am ...
... impossible . There is apparently a very small difference between much and very , but you can hardly ever put one in the place of the other . You can say , " I am very happy , " but not " I am much happy , " though you may say " I am ...
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... impossible , however , that this distinction between very , which is now used with adjectives only , and much , which precedes partici- ples , should disappear in time . In fact , “ very pleased and " very delighted " are Americanisms ...
... impossible , however , that this distinction between very , which is now used with adjectives only , and much , which precedes partici- ples , should disappear in time . In fact , “ very pleased and " very delighted " are Americanisms ...
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