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 13
... stand unsurpassed - nay , unequalled in it- by anything else . If it be a pro- duction of nature , it is her last and crowning produc- tion which she reserved for man alone . If it be a work of human art , it would seem to lift the ...
... stand unsurpassed - nay , unequalled in it- by anything else . If it be a pro- duction of nature , it is her last and crowning produc- tion which she reserved for man alone . If it be a work of human art , it would seem to lift the ...
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... stands for an original dvis , the English twice , the Greek ' dis . This dis appears again as a Latin preposition , meaning a - two ; so that , for instance , discussion means , origi- 1 Bopp , Comparative Grammar , § 320. Schleicher ...
... stands for an original dvis , the English twice , the Greek ' dis . This dis appears again as a Latin preposition , meaning a - two ; so that , for instance , discussion means , origi- 1 Bopp , Comparative Grammar , § 320. Schleicher ...
Page 75
... stands for sutis . We find similar traces of grammatical levelling in the Italian siamo , siete , sono , formed in analogy of regular verbs such as crediamo , credete , credono . The second person , sei , instead of es , is likewise ...
... stands for sutis . We find similar traces of grammatical levelling in the Italian siamo , siete , sono , formed in analogy of regular verbs such as crediamo , credete , credono . The second person , sei , instead of es , is likewise ...
Page 83
... stands but little of the so - called Osmanli , though its grammar is exactly the same as the grammar which he uses in his Tataric utterance . There is , perhaps , no language so full of words evi- dently derived from the most distant ...
... stands but little of the so - called Osmanli , though its grammar is exactly the same as the grammar which he uses in his Tataric utterance . There is , perhaps , no language so full of words evi- dently derived from the most distant ...
Page 103
... stand , and even to speak Greek . Boys were not only taught the Roman letters by their masters , the literatores , but they had to learn at the same time the Greek alphabet . Those who taught Greek at Rome were then called grammatici ...
... stand , and even to speak Greek . Boys were not only taught the Roman letters by their masters , the literatores , but they had to learn at the same time the Greek alphabet . Those who taught Greek at Rome were then called grammatici ...
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