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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Page 35
... plough- boy can speak could not be raised without an effort to the dignity of a scientific problem . Man had studied every part of nature , the mineral treasures in the bowels of the earth , the flowers of each season , the animals of ...
... plough- boy can speak could not be raised without an effort to the dignity of a scientific problem . Man had studied every part of nature , the mineral treasures in the bowels of the earth , the flowers of each season , the animals of ...
Page 235
... ploughing , of making roads , of building ships , of weaving and sewing , of erecting houses ; they had counted at least as far as one hundred They had do- - mesticated the most important animals , the cow , the ARYAN CIVILIZATION . 235.
... ploughing , of making roads , of building ships , of weaving and sewing , of erecting houses ; they had counted at least as far as one hundred They had do- - mesticated the most important animals , the cow , the ARYAN CIVILIZATION . 235.
Page 238
... ploughs or tills , " and that it is connected with the root of arare . The Aryans would seem to have chosen this name for themselves as opposed to the nomadic races , the Tura- nians , whose original name Tura implies the swiftness of ...
... ploughs or tills , " and that it is connected with the root of arare . The Aryans would seem to have chosen this name for themselves as opposed to the nomadic races , the Tura- nians , whose original name Tura implies the swiftness of ...
Page 252
... plough , to open the soil . From it we have the Latin ar - are , the Greek ar - oun , the Irish ar , the Lithuanian ar - ti , the Russian ora - ti , the Gothic ar - jan , the Anglo - Saxon er - jan , the modern English to ear ...
... plough , to open the soil . From it we have the Latin ar - are , the Greek ar - oun , the Irish ar , the Lithuanian ar - ti , the Russian ora - ti , the Gothic ar - jan , the Anglo - Saxon er - jan , the modern English to ear ...
Page 253
... ploughing is called aratio in Latin ; arosis in Greek and I believe that aróma , in the sense of perfume , had the same origin ; for what is sweeter or more aromatic than the smell of a ploughed field ? In Genesis , xxviii . 27 , Jacob ...
... ploughing is called aratio in Latin ; arosis in Greek and I believe that aróma , in the sense of perfume , had the same origin ; for what is sweeter or more aromatic than the smell of a ploughed field ? In Genesis , xxviii . 27 , Jacob ...
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