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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... nature of 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 ...
... nature of 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 ...
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... nature , a work of human art , or a divine gift . But to whatever sphere it be- longs , it would seem to stand unsurpassed - nay , unequalled in it- by anything else . If it be a pro- duction of nature , it is her last and crowning ...
... nature , a work of human art , or a divine gift . But to whatever sphere it be- longs , it would seem to stand unsurpassed - nay , unequalled in it- by anything else . If it be a pro- duction of nature , it is her last and crowning ...
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... nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the practical result of their labors , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless they were in some ...
... nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the practical result of their labors , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless they were in some ...
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... nature of language , and on the relation of words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities of the outer world on the other . Men were called heretics for believing that words such as justice or truth expressed only concep ...
... nature of language , and on the relation of words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities of the outer world on the other . Men were called heretics for believing that words such as justice or truth expressed only concep ...
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... nature ; when we can lift it up , as it were , and view it in our mind as a whole , as a system well defined and complete , we then speak of the science of plants , or botany . We have entered into altogether a new sphere of knowledge ...
... nature ; when we can lift it up , as it were , and view it in our mind as a whole , as a system well defined and complete , we then speak of the science of plants , or botany . We have entered into altogether a new sphere of knowledge ...
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