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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... dialects of Ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative philologist . Their forms , which to the The 1 A valuable ...
... dialects of Ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative philologist . Their forms , which to the The 1 A valuable ...
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... dialects , they will , in turn , reflect that light with increased power on the phonetic peculiarities of Sanskrit and Prâkrit , Zend and Persian , Latin and French . But even were the old mines exhausted , the Science of Language would ...
... dialects , they will , in turn , reflect that light with increased power on the phonetic peculiarities of Sanskrit and Prâkrit , Zend and Persian , Latin and French . But even were the old mines exhausted , the Science of Language would ...
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... dialects now spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , Amer- ica , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left to him to conquer . - There is another ...
... dialects now spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , Amer- ica , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left to him to conquer . - There is another ...
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... dialects , and it is to them that we must look , if we wish for a compass to guide us through the most violent ... dialect , if well examined and analyzed , will teach us more than the most ingen- ious speculations on the nature of ...
... dialects , and it is to them that we must look , if we wish for a compass to guide us through the most violent ... dialect , if well examined and analyzed , will teach us more than the most ingen- ious speculations on the nature of ...
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... dialects by the same criteria on which the common descent of Greek and Latin is established ; or to try to discover Sanskrit in the Malay dialects , or Greek in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth ...
... dialects by the same criteria on which the common descent of Greek and Latin is established ; or to try to discover Sanskrit in the Malay dialects , or Greek in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth ...
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