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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... beginnings , whether they can be classified in families or no , are constantly starting up , and scholars , even while en- gaged in the most minute inquiries , while carry- ing brick and mortar to build the walls of their new science ...
... beginnings , whether they can be classified in families or no , are constantly starting up , and scholars , even while en- gaged in the most minute inquiries , while carry- ing brick and mortar to build the walls of their new science ...
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... beginning ; if man is at once the mystery and the key of natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then eth- nological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are ...
... beginning ; if man is at once the mystery and the key of natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then eth- nological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are ...
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... beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the comparative researches of Ori- ental scholars . The origin of the grammatical forms , of gender and number , the etymology of pro- nouns , and many other questions of the ...
... beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the comparative researches of Ori- ental scholars . The origin of the grammatical forms , of gender and number , the etymology of pro- nouns , and many other questions of the ...
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... beginning the mere expression of individual feeling , and therefore liable to much greater dialectic variation than grammat- ical forms , properly so called . But let us take what we might call grammatical forms in Chinese , in order to ...
... beginning the mere expression of individual feeling , and therefore liable to much greater dialectic variation than grammat- ical forms , properly so called . But let us take what we might call grammatical forms in Chinese , in order to ...
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... beginning to guard against the misapprehension that the study of Sanskrit and its cognate dialects could supply us with all that is necessary for the Science of Lan- guage . It can do so as little as an exploration of the tertiary epoch ...
... beginning to guard against the misapprehension that the study of Sanskrit and its cognate dialects could supply us with all that is necessary for the Science of Lan- guage . It can do so as little as an exploration of the tertiary epoch ...
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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 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 Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic 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