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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... rivers . They form reservoirs of what was once living and running speech , but they are no longer carried on by the ... river , brilliant and smooth , but stiff and cold . It is mostly by political commotions that this surface of the ...
... rivers . They form reservoirs of what was once living and running speech , but they are no longer carried on by the ... river , brilliant and smooth , but stiff and cold . It is mostly by political commotions that this surface of the ...
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... rivers.8 Nay , one of the most brilliant discoveries in the his- tory of the science of language , the establishment of the Malay and Polynesian family of speech , extending from the island of Madagascar east of Africa , over 208 ...
... rivers.8 Nay , one of the most brilliant discoveries in the his- tory of the science of language , the establishment of the Malay and Polynesian family of speech , extending from the island of Madagascar east of Africa , over 208 ...
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... rivers of the Penjab , and the scenery of the Upper Ganges valley are familiar objects to the ancient bards . There is no doubt , in fact , that the people who spoke San- skrit came into India from the north , and gradually extended ...
... rivers of the Penjab , and the scenery of the Upper Ganges valley are familiar objects to the ancient bards . There is no doubt , in fact , that the people who spoke San- skrit came into India from the north , and gradually extended ...
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... river ) , or of the seven sindhus , could have been called Hindia or India instead of Sin- dia . Unless the followers of Zoroaster had pronounced every 8 like h , we should never have heard of the West Indies ! We have thus seen by an ...
... river ) , or of the seven sindhus , could have been called Hindia or India instead of Sin- dia . Unless the followers of Zoroaster had pronounced every 8 like h , we should never have heard of the West Indies ! We have thus seen by an ...
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... river as the Hesudrus of Alexander , the Satadru of the Indians , and among the oldest hymns of the Veda , about 1500 B. C. , we find a war- song referring to a battle fought on the two banks of the same river . No doubt there is danger ...
... river as the Hesudrus of Alexander , the Satadru of the Indians , and among the oldest hymns of the Veda , about 1500 B. C. , we find a war- song referring to a battle fought on the two banks of the same river . No doubt there is danger ...
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