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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... metaphor . Cases of radical metaphor , though numerous in radical and agglutinative languages , are less fre- quent in inflectional languages , such as Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . Nor is it difficult to account for this . It was the ...
... metaphor . Cases of radical metaphor , though numerous in radical and agglutinative languages , are less fre- quent in inflectional languages , such as Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . Nor is it difficult to account for this . It was the ...
Page 399
... metaphor is very essential , and helps us more than anything else toward a clear perception of the origin of fables , it must be admitted that there are cases where it is difficult to carry out this distinction . If modern poets call ...
... metaphor is very essential , and helps us more than anything else toward a clear perception of the origin of fables , it must be admitted that there are cases where it is difficult to carry out this distinction . If modern poets call ...
Page 614
... Metaphor 351 . MOR Metaphor , Locke's statement of the fact that all words expressive of immaterial conceptions are obtained by metaphor , quot- ed , 356 . cases in point , 358 . Kafir metaphors , 359 . English and other metaphors , 359 ...
... Metaphor 351 . MOR Metaphor , Locke's statement of the fact that all words expressive of immaterial conceptions are obtained by metaphor , quot- ed , 356 . cases in point , 358 . Kafir metaphors , 359 . English and other metaphors , 359 ...
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