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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... translated by so many inter- preters that one of the Brahmans remarked , they must become like water that had passed through many im- pure channels.1 We hear , indeed , of more ancient 1 This shows how difficult it would be to admit ...
... translated by so many inter- preters that one of the Brahmans remarked , they must become like water that had passed through many im- pure channels.1 We hear , indeed , of more ancient 1 This shows how difficult it would be to admit ...
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... translation of Mago's work on agriculture belongs to a later time . There is no proof that Mago , who wrote twenty - eight books on agriculture were written in Greek , and for the Greeks . 94 STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES .
... translation of Mago's work on agriculture belongs to a later time . There is no proof that Mago , who wrote twenty - eight books on agriculture were written in Greek , and for the Greeks . 94 STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES .
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... translated the writings of Zoroaster , was in all probability Hermip- pus , the Peripatetic philosopher , the pupil ... translation made for their own benefit . Certain it is , that about the beginning of the third century B. c . ( 285 ) ...
... translated the writings of Zoroaster , was in all probability Hermip- pus , the Peripatetic philosopher , the pupil ... translation made for their own benefit . Certain it is , that about the beginning of the third century B. c . ( 285 ) ...
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... translation of the Greek word arthron . Arthron ( Lat . artus ) means the socket of a joint . The word was first used by Aristotle , and with him it could only mean words which formed , as it were , the sockets in which the members of a ...
... translation of the Greek word arthron . Arthron ( Lat . artus ) means the socket of a joint . The word was first used by Aristotle , and with him it could only mean words which formed , as it were , the sockets in which the members of a ...
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... translating these oracles.2 When the Romans , in 454 B. C. , wanted to establish a code of laws , the first thing they did was to send commissioners to Greece to report on the laws of Solon at Athens and the laws of other Greek towns ...
... translating these oracles.2 When the Romans , in 454 B. C. , wanted to establish a code of laws , the first thing they did was to send commissioners to Greece to report on the laws of Solon at Athens and the laws of other Greek towns ...
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