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 321
... later writers would betray an utter disregard of the criteria by which we distinguish ancient and inodern thought . Our present object , however , is not to find out what these early philosophers thought of language , -Iam afraid we ...
... later writers would betray an utter disregard of the criteria by which we distinguish ancient and inodern thought . Our present object , however , is not to find out what these early philosophers thought of language , -Iam afraid we ...
Page 355
... later times of Comte , are plain , intelligible , and perfectly ra- tional ; the facts collected by men like Wolf , Niebuhr , F. Schlegel , W. von Humboldt , Bopp , Burnouf , Grimm , Bunsen , and others , are fragmentary , the ...
... later times of Comte , are plain , intelligible , and perfectly ra- tional ; the facts collected by men like Wolf , Niebuhr , F. Schlegel , W. von Humboldt , Bopp , Burnouf , Grimm , Bunsen , and others , are fragmentary , the ...
Page 604
... later names , 514 . Athênê , the germ of the name , 521 . as the Dawn , 522 . Athenians , their prayer to Zeus for rain , 452 . Atlas , according to the later Greek historians , 417 . Atoms , the expression , 598 . Australian languages ...
... later names , 514 . Athênê , the germ of the name , 521 . as the Dawn , 522 . Athenians , their prayer to Zeus for rain , 452 . Atlas , according to the later Greek historians , 417 . Atoms , the expression , 598 . Australian languages ...
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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