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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... third or final stage the theoretical , or metaphysical . If the work of classification is prop- erly carried out , it teaches us that nothing exists in nature by accident ; that each individual belongs to a species , each species to a ...
... third or final stage the theoretical , or metaphysical . If the work of classification is prop- erly carried out , it teaches us that nothing exists in nature by accident ; that each individual belongs to a species , each species to a ...
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... 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- sides , there are great chasms in 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- sides , there are great chasms in the ...
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... third stage of any physical science without having passed through the second . No one can study the plant , no one can understand the bearing of such a work as , for instance , Professor Schleiden's " Life of the Plant , " who has not ...
... third stage of any physical science without having passed through the second . No one can study the plant , no one can understand the bearing of such a work as , for instance , Professor Schleiden's " Life of the Plant , " who has not ...
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... third person singular in th is now entirely replaced by 8. No one now says he liveth , but only he lives . Sev- eral of the irregular imperfects and participles have as- sumed a new form . No one now uses he spake , and he drave ...
... third person singular in th is now entirely replaced by 8. No one now says he liveth , but only he lives . Sev- eral of the irregular imperfects and participles have as- sumed a new form . No one now uses he spake , and he drave ...
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... third person plural súnt , they are . And what shall we say of such monsters as essendo , a gerund derived on principles of strict justice from an infinitive essere , like credendo from credere ! However , we need not be surprised , for ...
... third person plural súnt , they are . And what shall we say of such monsters as essendo , a gerund derived on principles of strict justice from an infinitive essere , like credendo from credere ! However , we need not be surprised , for ...
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