Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863Scribner's Sons, 1864 - 622 pages |
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Page 450
... earth ; hence the earth must be his mother . As sky and earth had been invoked before as beneficent powers , they would the more easily assume the paternity of Indra ; though even if they had not before been worshipped as gods , Indra ...
... earth ; hence the earth must be his mother . As sky and earth had been invoked before as beneficent powers , they would the more easily assume the paternity of Indra ; though even if they had not before been worshipped as gods , Indra ...
Page 480
... earth and are seen among men , he teaching war and weapons , she sewing , spinning , and weaving . He inspires the ... earth , those simple - hearted forefathers of ours , and said within themselves , Where is the All - Father , if All ...
... earth and are seen among men , he teaching war and weapons , she sewing , spinning , and weaving . He inspires the ... earth , those simple - hearted forefathers of ours , and said within themselves , Where is the All - Father , if All ...
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... Earth , was sufficient to impart to it the first elements of personality , if not of humanity . But this Earth , when once spoken of as an individual , was felt to be more than the soil enclosed by hurdles , or walls , or mountains . To ...
... Earth , was sufficient to impart to it the first elements of personality , if not of humanity . But this Earth , when once spoken of as an individual , was felt to be more than the soil enclosed by hurdles , or walls , or mountains . To ...
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Agni Alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural Hawaian heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced religion Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon Science of Language sense skrit soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν