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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... things walking about in broad daylight . In modern times the science of language has been called in to settle some of the most perplexing political and social questions . “ Nations and languages against dynasties and treaties , " this ...
... things walking about in broad daylight . In modern times the science of language has been called in to settle some of the most perplexing political and social questions . “ Nations and languages against dynasties and treaties , " this ...
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... things if we can comprehend them ; that is to say , if we can grasp and hold together single facts , connect isolated impressions , distinguish between what is essen- tial and what is merely accidental , and thus predicate the general ...
... things if we can comprehend them ; that is to say , if we can grasp and hold together single facts , connect isolated impressions , distinguish between what is essen- tial and what is merely accidental , and thus predicate the general ...
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... things . These laws indicate to us the presence of a purpose in the mind of the Creator ; and whereas the material world was looked upon by ancient philosophers as a mere illusion , as an agglomerate of atoms , or as the work of an evil ...
... things . These laws indicate to us the presence of a purpose in the mind of the Creator ; and whereas the material world was looked upon by ancient philosophers as a mere illusion , as an agglomerate of atoms , or as the work of an evil ...
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... things from darkness to light . In the history of the physical sciences , the three stages which we have just described as the empiri- cal , the classificatory , and the theoretical , appear generally in chronological order . I say ...
... things from darkness to light . In the history of the physical sciences , the three stages which we have just described as the empiri- cal , the classificatory , and the theoretical , appear generally in chronological order . I say ...
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... thing , in fact , that seemed to contain a vestige of the early life of man was anxiously searched for and care- fully preserved in our libraries and museums , lan- guage , which in itself carries us back far beyond the cuneiform ...
... thing , in fact , that seemed to contain a vestige of the early life of man was anxiously searched for and care- fully preserved in our libraries and museums , lan- guage , which in itself carries us back far beyond the cuneiform ...
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