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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... conceptions that claimed utterance , their combinations and ramifications , their growth , their decay , and their resuscitation . In that part we shall have to inquire into some of the fundamental principles of Mythology , both ancient ...
... conceptions that claimed utterance , their combinations and ramifications , their growth , their decay , and their resuscitation . In that part we shall have to inquire into some of the fundamental principles of Mythology , both ancient ...
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... conceive of living human language as having originated in a conventional agreement , I endeavored to explain in one of my former lectures . But I should by no means wish to be understood as denying the possibility of framing some ...
... conceive of living human language as having originated in a conventional agreement , I endeavored to explain in one of my former lectures . But I should by no means wish to be understood as denying the possibility of framing some ...
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... conception of the nature of such a language . It seems hardly compatible , however , with the character of Leibniz to suppose 1 Guhrauer , G. W. Freiherr von Leibnitz , 1846 , vol . i . p . 328 . that he should have spoken so ...
... conception of the nature of such a language . It seems hardly compatible , however , with the character of Leibniz to suppose 1 Guhrauer , G. W. Freiherr von Leibnitz , 1846 , vol . i . p . 328 . that he should have spoken so ...
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... conceptions by marks , which shall signify things , and not words . And so , likewise , if several distinct words ( sounds ) were assigned to the names of such things , with certain invariable rules for all such grammatical derivations ...
... conceptions by marks , which shall signify things , and not words . And so , likewise , if several distinct words ( sounds ) were assigned to the names of such things , with certain invariable rules for all such grammatical derivations ...
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... conceptions , such as kind , cause , condition , & c . By subdividing these six classes , the Bishop arrives in the end at forty classes , which , according to him , comprehend everything that can be known or imag- ined , and therefore ...
... conceptions , such as kind , cause , condition , & c . By subdividing these six classes , the Bishop arrives in the end at forty classes , which , according to him , comprehend everything that can be known or imag- ined , and therefore ...
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