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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... ancient seats of civilization . may select a small village in our neighborhood to pick up dialectic varieties and to collect phrases , proverbs , and stories which will disclose fragments , almost ground to dust , it is true , yet ...
... ancient seats of civilization . may select a small village in our neighborhood to pick up dialectic varieties and to collect phrases , proverbs , and stories which will disclose fragments , almost ground to dust , it is true , yet ...
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... ancient inscriptions may be seen in an article by Professor Le Page Renouf , " Sir G. C. Lewis on the De- cipherment and Interpretation of Dead Languages , " in the Atlantis , Nos . vii . and viii . p . 23. Though it cannot be known now ...
... ancient inscriptions may be seen in an article by Professor Le Page Renouf , " Sir G. C. Lewis on the De- cipherment and Interpretation of Dead Languages , " in the Atlantis , Nos . vii . and viii . p . 23. Though it cannot be known now ...
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... Ancient Persian ; how then , with the help of the Zend , which repre- sents the Persian language previous to Darius , and with the help of the later Persian , a most effective cross - fire was opened ; how even more powerful ord- nance ...
... Ancient Persian ; how then , with the help of the Zend , which repre- sents the Persian language previous to Darius , and with the help of the later Persian , a most effective cross - fire was opened ; how even more powerful ord- nance ...
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... ancient world is called " Orbis Veteri- bus Notus , " where you distinguish names and boundaries only in those parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa which formed the primeval stage of the great 1 Report of the British Association for the ...
... ancient world is called " Orbis Veteri- bus Notus , " where you distinguish names and boundaries only in those parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa which formed the primeval stage of the great 1 Report of the British Association for the ...
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... ancient geographical maps of Strabo and Ptolemy . But I very soon perceived that this would hardly have been a fit sub- ject for a course of lectures . I could only have given you an account of the work done by others : of explorations ...
... ancient geographical maps of Strabo and Ptolemy . But I very soon perceived that this would hardly have been a fit sub- ject for a course of lectures . I could only have given you an account of the work done by others : of explorations ...
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