Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863Scribner's Sons, 1864 - 600 pages |
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Page 92
... cause , and every cause , in the logical acceptation of the word , is an abstraction . As a cause it can claim no reality , no vulgar reality ; if we call real that only which can become the object of sensuous perception . In real ...
... cause , and every cause , in the logical acceptation of the word , is an abstraction . As a cause it can claim no reality , no vulgar reality ; if we call real that only which can become the object of sensuous perception . In real ...
Page 190
... cause of phonetic degeneracy in language is when people shrink from the effort of articulating each consonant and vowel ; when they attempt to economize their breath ... cause to be neither more nor less than 190 CAUSES OF PHONETIC CHANGE .
... cause of phonetic degeneracy in language is when people shrink from the effort of articulating each consonant and vowel ; when they attempt to economize their breath ... cause to be neither more nor less than 190 CAUSES OF PHONETIC CHANGE .
Page 617
... cause of tone in its simplest form , 113 , 115 . his statements on language , 316 . Python , Hecatæus ' explanation of the myth of the serpent , 416 . QUEEN , origin of the word , 272 . Quirinus , the divinity Janus called , 472 . lects ...
... cause of tone in its simplest form , 113 , 115 . his statements on language , 316 . Python , Hecatæus ' explanation of the myth of the serpent , 416 . QUEEN , origin of the word , 272 . Quirinus , the divinity Janus called , 472 . lects ...
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