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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... results of inductive reasoning invested by native eloquence , with all the charms of poetry and romance , - it is because , though mistrusting myself , I cannot mistrust my subject . The study of words may be tedious to the school - boy ...
... results of inductive reasoning invested by native eloquence , with all the charms of poetry and romance , - it is because , though mistrusting myself , I cannot mistrust my subject . The study of words may be tedious to the school - boy ...
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... , 242 . As early as the times of Anaximenes of the Ionic , and Alemæon of the Pythagorean , schools , the stars had been divided into travelling ( ŭorpa to forget that these terms were not the result of EMPIRICAL STAGE . 17.
... , 242 . As early as the times of Anaximenes of the Ionic , and Alemæon of the Pythagorean , schools , the stars had been divided into travelling ( ŭorpa to forget that these terms were not the result of EMPIRICAL STAGE . 17.
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... result of scien- tific observation and classification , but were borrowed from the language of those who themselves were wan- derers on the sea or in the desert , and to whom the fixed stars were in full reality what their name implies ...
... result of scien- tific observation and classification , but were borrowed from the language of those who themselves were wan- derers on the sea or in the desert , and to whom the fixed stars were in full reality what their name implies ...
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... results of their labors . But there is a general interest which supports and enlivens their researches , and that interest depends on the prac- tical advantages which society at large derives from their scientific studies . Let it be ...
... results of their labors . But there is a general interest which supports and enlivens their researches , and that interest depends on the prac- tical advantages which society at large derives from their scientific studies . Let it be ...
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... results properly be- longing to the third have been anticipated in the first stage . To the quick eye of genius one case may be like a thousand , and one experiment , well chosen , may lead to the discovery of an absolute law . Be ...
... results properly be- longing to the third have been anticipated in the first stage . To the quick eye of genius one case may be like a thousand , and one experiment , well chosen , may lead to the discovery of an absolute law . Be ...
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