Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April and May, 1863, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1865 - 622 pages |
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... French . But even were the old mines exhausted , the Science of Language would create its own materials , and as with the rod of the prophet smite the rocks of the desert to call forth from them new streams of living speech . The rock ...
... French . But even were the old mines exhausted , the Science of Language would create its own materials , and as with the rod of the prophet smite the rocks of the desert to call forth from them new streams of living speech . The rock ...
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... French , German , Latin , and Greek , and , of course , to Sanskrit , — in order to discover or to establish more firmly some of the fundamental principles of the Science of Lan- guage . I believe there is no science from which we , the ...
... French , German , Latin , and Greek , and , of course , to Sanskrit , — in order to discover or to establish more firmly some of the fundamental principles of the Science of Lan- guage . I believe there is no science from which we , the ...
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... French . On June 3 , 1679 , 1 Cf. Garnett's paper 66 On the Formation of Words from Inflected Cases , " Philological Society , vol . iii . , No. 54 , 1847. Garnett compares the Welsh yn sefyll , in standing , Ir . ag seasamh , on ...
... French . On June 3 , 1679 , 1 Cf. Garnett's paper 66 On the Formation of Words from Inflected Cases , " Philological Society , vol . iii . , No. 54 , 1847. Garnett compares the Welsh yn sefyll , in standing , Ir . ag seasamh , on ...
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... French Academy decreed that the participles present should no longer be declined.1 What was the meaning of this decree ? Simply what may now be found in every French grammar , namely , that commençant , finissant , are indeclinable when ...
... French Academy decreed that the participles present should no longer be declined.1 What was the meaning of this decree ? Simply what may now be found in every French grammar , namely , that commençant , finissant , are indeclinable when ...
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... French is possible in Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co , laquelle est propre à exprimer la futurition , par la vertu qu'elle a de signifier la ...
... French is possible in Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co , laquelle est propre à exprimer la futurition , par la vertu qu'elle a de signifier la ...
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