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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... philosopher , the historian , and the theologian , to a science which concerns them all , and which , though it professes to treat of words only , teaches us that there is more in words than is dreamt of in our philosophy . I quote from ...
... philosopher , the historian , and the theologian , to a science which concerns them all , and which , though it professes to treat of words only , teaches us that there is more in words than is dreamt of in our philosophy . I quote from ...
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... philosophers to deep researches and bold discoveries . The foundation- stone of the most glorious structures of ... philosopher EMPIRICAL STAGE . 15.
... philosophers to deep researches and bold discoveries . The foundation- stone of the most glorious structures of ... philosopher EMPIRICAL STAGE . 15.
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... philosopher , but the sailor and the farmer . The early poet may have admired " the mazy dance of planets , " and the philosopher may have speculated on the heavenly har- monies ; but it was to the sailor alone that a knowl- edge of the ...
... philosopher , but the sailor and the farmer . The early poet may have admired " the mazy dance of planets , " and the philosopher may have speculated on the heavenly har- monies ; but it was to the sailor alone that a knowl- edge of the ...
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... philosophers with whom penser c'est sentir , 1 who reduce all thought to feeling , and maintain that we share the faculties which are the productive causes of thought in common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of ...
... philosophers with whom penser c'est sentir , 1 who reduce all thought to feeling , and maintain that we share the faculties which are the productive causes of thought in common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of ...
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... philosophers , and who certainly vindicated a large share of what had been claimed for the intel lect as the property of the senses , recognized most fully the barrier which language , as such , placed between man and brutes . " This I ...
... philosophers , and who certainly vindicated a large share of what had been claimed for the intel lect as the property of the senses , recognized most fully the barrier which language , as such , placed between man and brutes . " This I ...
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