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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... races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in which , among the profiles of the ...
... races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in which , among the profiles of the ...
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... race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or two passive powers , the existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the faculty of receiving the ...
... race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or two passive powers , the existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the faculty of receiving the ...
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... race . In the same manner , if we study 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 ...
... race . In the same manner , if we study 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 ...
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... race , and still draws its life from the first utterances of the human mind , language , the living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to ...
... race , and still draws its life from the first utterances of the human mind , language , the living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to ...
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... race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - estab- lished class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the Tungusic ...
... race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - estab- lished class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the Tungusic ...
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