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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Page 13
... clearly established the fact that the language of these inscriptions was 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 ...
... clearly established the fact that the language of these inscriptions was 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 ...
Page 16
... clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the advancement of which this Association is instituted . It is not an appendix to physiology or to anything else ; but its object is , on the contrary , capable ...
... clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the advancement of which this Association is instituted . It is not an appendix to physiology or to anything else ; but its object is , on the contrary , capable ...
Page 36
... clear that if a radical or monosyllabic lan- guage , like Chinese , begins to change and to break out in independent dialects , the results must be very different from those which we observe in Latin as split up into the Romance ...
... clear that if a radical or monosyllabic lan- guage , like Chinese , begins to change and to break out in independent dialects , the results must be very different from those which we observe in Latin as split up into the Romance ...
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... clearly in the 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 ...
... clearly in the 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 ...
Page 43
... to make it high treason to speak during her reign of Tories , this word being always supplied by another ; such , for instance , as Liberal - Conservative . The object was clearly to guard against the name of the sovereign being TE PI . 43.
... to make it high treason to speak during her reign of Tories , this word being always supplied by another ; such , for instance , as Liberal - Conservative . The object was clearly to guard against the name of the sovereign being TE PI . 43.
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