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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... whole kingdom of plants has thus been surveyed , and a simple tissue of names been thrown over the garden of nature ; when we can lift it up , as it were , and view it in our mind as a whole , as a system well defined and complete , we ...
... whole kingdom of plants has thus been surveyed , and a simple tissue of names been thrown over the garden of nature ; when we can lift it up , as it were , and view it in our mind as a whole , as a system well defined and complete , we ...
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... whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and critically in a number of literary works representing the various periods of its growth . Nevertheless , short lists of vocables , and imperfect ...
... whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and critically in a number of literary works representing the various periods of its growth . Nevertheless , short lists of vocables , and imperfect ...
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... whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from our observation , yet ' the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether in the petrified strata of ancient literature or in the countless variety of living ...
... whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from our observation , yet ' the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether in the petrified strata of ancient literature or in the countless variety of living ...
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... whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within ―― - ever be one sea guage Ha tend to ADCE COPRAC ...
... whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within ―― - ever be one sea guage Ha tend to ADCE COPRAC ...
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... whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source ...
... whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source ...
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