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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... learning . Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it in England , France , and Germany are so vague and vary- ing that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at large as to ...
... learning . Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it in England , France , and Germany are so vague and vary- ing that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at large as to ...
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... learning a lesson for which other branches of 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 ...
... learning a lesson for which other branches of 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 ...
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... learning languages more expeditiously , nor does it hold out any hope of ever realizing the dream of one universal language . 1 According to a writer in " Notes and Queries " ( 2d Series , vol . x . p . 500 , ) astrology is not so ...
... learning languages more expeditiously , nor does it hold out any hope of ever realizing the dream of one universal language . 1 According to a writer in " Notes and Queries " ( 2d Series , vol . x . p . 500 , ) astrology is not so ...
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... learning.1 Erts Beton 1 Dr. Whewell classes the science of language as one of the palaitiologi- cal sciences ; but he makes a distinction between palaitiological sciences treating of material things , for instance , geology , and others ...
... learning.1 Erts Beton 1 Dr. Whewell classes the science of language as one of the palaitiologi- cal sciences ; but he makes a distinction between palaitiological sciences treating of material things , for instance , geology , and others ...
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... learning destroyed , it is then that the popular , or , as they are called , the vulgar dialects , which had formed a kind of undercurrent , rise beneath the crystal surface of the literary language , and sweep away , like the waters in ...
... learning destroyed , it is then that the popular , or , as they are called , the vulgar dialects , which had formed a kind of undercurrent , rise beneath the crystal surface of the literary language , and sweep away , like the waters in ...
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