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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... philosophers of old with regard to the nature and origin of language is expressed by the two words phýsei and thései , “ naturally " and " arti- ficially , " we learn very little from such general terms . We must know the history of ...
... philosophers of old with regard to the nature and origin of language is expressed by the two words phýsei and thései , “ naturally " and " arti- ficially , " we learn very little from such general terms . We must know the history of ...
Page 406
... philosophers of Greece . Heraclitus seems to have looked upon the Homeric system of theol- ogy , if we may so call it , as flippant infidelity . Ac- cording to Diogenes Laertius , Heraclitus declared that Homer , as well as Archilochus ...
... philosophers of Greece . Heraclitus seems to have looked upon the Homeric system of theol- ogy , if we may so call it , as flippant infidelity . Ac- cording to Diogenes Laertius , Heraclitus declared that Homer , as well as Archilochus ...
Page 590
... philosophers , Brown dwells most strongly on the same subject : - " How much the mere materialism of our language ... philosophers . It has acted much more power- fully , in the familiar discourse and silent reflections of multitudes ...
... philosophers , Brown dwells most strongly on the same subject : - " How much the mere materialism of our language ... philosophers . It has acted much more power- fully , in the familiar discourse and silent reflections of multitudes ...
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