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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... senses , recognized most fully the barrier which language , as such , placed between man and brutes . " This I may be positive in , " he writes , " that the power of abstracting is not at all in brutes , and that the having of general ...
... senses , recognized most fully the barrier which language , as such , placed between man and brutes . " This I may be positive in , " he writes , " that the power of abstracting is not at all in brutes , and that the having of general ...
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... sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does ...
... sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does ...
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... sense , and in a very just sense , we may be said to handle the very words which issued from the mouth of the son of God , when he gave names to " all cattle , and to the fowl of the air , and to every beast of the field , " you will ...
... sense , and in a very just sense , we may be said to handle the very words which issued from the mouth of the son of God , when he gave names to " all cattle , and to the fowl of the air , and to every beast of the field , " you will ...
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... sense in which a statue , or a temple , or a poem , or a law are properly called the works of man , the science of lan- guage would have to be classed as an historical science . We should have a history of language as we have a history ...
... sense in which a statue , or a temple , or a poem , or a law are properly called the works of man , the science of lan- guage would have to be classed as an historical science . We should have a history of language as we have a history ...
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... as it is the object of these lectures to prove that lan- guage is not a work of human art , in the same sense 1 D. Stewart , Works , vol . iii . p . 27 . as painting , or building , or writing , or LANGUAGE REVEALED . 41.
... as it is the object of these lectures to prove that lan- guage is not a work of human art , in the same sense 1 D. Stewart , Works , vol . iii . p . 27 . as painting , or building , or writing , or LANGUAGE REVEALED . 41.
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