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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... never reduced as yet to a fixed stand- ard by the influence of a national literature , never written down at all , and never analyzed before by grammatical science . The whole of the first volume of Dr. Bleek's " Comparative Grammar of ...
... never reduced as yet to a fixed stand- ard by the influence of a national literature , never written down at all , and never analyzed before by grammatical science . The whole of the first volume of Dr. Bleek's " Comparative Grammar of ...
Page 537
... never failed , never faded , never died , and were called immortal , i . e . unfading , as compared with the feeble and decaying race of man . I consider the regular recurrence of phenomena an almost indispensable condition of their ...
... never failed , never faded , never died , and were called immortal , i . e . unfading , as compared with the feeble and decaying race of man . I consider the regular recurrence of phenomena an almost indispensable condition of their ...
Page 597
... never be presented to the eye . It is the same in the world at large . No finger , no razor , has ever touched the end of anything : no eye has laid hold of the horizon which divides heaven and earth , or of the line which separates ...
... never be presented to the eye . It is the same in the world at large . No finger , no razor , has ever touched the end of anything : no eye has laid hold of the horizon which divides heaven and earth , or of the line which separates ...
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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