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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... nouns and verbs and particles , — if I venture to address an audience accustomed to listen , in this place , to the wonderful tales of the natural histo- rian , the chemist , and geologist , and wont to see the novel results of ...
... nouns and verbs and particles , — if I venture to address an audience accustomed to listen , in this place , to the wonderful tales of the natural histo- rian , the chemist , and geologist , and wont to see the novel results of ...
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... nouns and verbs , or with long lists of words which have never been used in any work of literature . It is true , no doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it ...
... nouns and verbs , or with long lists of words which have never been used in any work of literature . It is true , no doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it ...
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... nouns , and that the verbs were supplied by gesture ; that , therefore , when people saw a wolf coming , they did not cry " He comes , " but " Wolf , Wolf , " leaving the rest to be imagined.1 But whether the verb or the noun was the ...
... nouns , and that the verbs were supplied by gesture ; that , therefore , when people saw a wolf coming , they did not cry " He comes , " but " Wolf , Wolf , " leaving the rest to be imagined.1 But whether the verb or the noun was the ...
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... noun its , has sprung into life since the beginning of the seventeenth century . It never occurs in the Bible ; and though it is used three or four times by Shake- speare , Ben Jonson does not recognize it as yet in his English Grammar ...
... noun its , has sprung into life since the beginning of the seventeenth century . It never occurs in the Bible ; and though it is used three or four times by Shake- speare , Ben Jonson does not recognize it as yet in his English Grammar ...
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... nouns , the degrees of comparison , and a few of the persons and tenses of the verb . Yet the single 8 , used as the exponent of the third person singular of the in- dicative present , is irrefragable evidence that in a sci- entific ...
... nouns , the degrees of comparison , and a few of the persons and tenses of the verb . Yet the single 8 , used as the exponent of the third person singular of the in- dicative present , is irrefragable evidence that in a sci- entific ...
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