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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... living beings ; if it es- tablishes a frontier between man and the brute , which can never be removed , it would seem to possess at the present moment peculiar claims on the attention of all who , while watching with sincere admiration ...
... living beings ; if it es- tablishes a frontier between man and the brute , which can never be removed , it would seem to possess at the present moment peculiar claims on the attention of all who , while watching with sincere admiration ...
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... living languages , it is not for their own sake that we acquire grammars and vocabularies . We do so on account of their practical usefulness . We use them as letters of introduction to the best society or to the best literature of the ...
... living languages , it is not for their own sake that we acquire grammars and vocabularies . We do so on account of their practical usefulness . We use them as letters of introduction to the best society or to the best literature of the ...
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... living lan- guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can hardly be less than nine hun ...
... living lan- guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can hardly be less than nine hun ...
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... living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within ―― - ever be ...
... living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within ―― - ever be ...
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... living creature , that was the name there- of . " But with the exception of this small class of philosophers , more orthodox even than the Bible , 2 the generally received opinion on the origin of lan- guage is that which was held by ...
... living creature , that was the name there- of . " But with the exception of this small class of philosophers , more orthodox even than the Bible , 2 the generally received opinion on the origin of lan- guage is that which was held by ...
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