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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... seems more likely that Leibniz was acquainted with a work which , in the second half of the seventeenth century , attracted much at- tention in England , " The Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language , " 1 by Bishop ...
... seems more likely that Leibniz was acquainted with a work which , in the second half of the seventeenth century , attracted much at- tention in England , " The Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language , " 1 by Bishop ...
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... seems to have been vaguely known to the early framers of language , for the Greek tonos , tone , is derived from a root tan , meaning to extend . Pythag- oras 1 knew more than this . He knew that when chords of the same quality and the ...
... seems to have been vaguely known to the early framers of language , for the Greek tonos , tone , is derived from a root tan , meaning to extend . Pythag- oras 1 knew more than this . He knew that when chords of the same quality and the ...
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... seems to be a free agent and yet is the slave of the masses whom he wants to influence , in which the masses seem irre- sistible , and are yet swayed by the pen of an un- known writer ? Or , to descend to smaller matters , how does a ...
... seems to be a free agent and yet is the slave of the masses whom he wants to influence , in which the masses seem irre- sistible , and are yet swayed by the pen of an un- known writer ? Or , to descend to smaller matters , how does a ...
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