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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... LECTURE IV . PHONETIC CHANGE 174 LECTURE V. 213 GRIMM'S LAW . LECTURE VI . ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ETYMOLOGY 254 LECTURE VII . ON THE POWERS OF ROOTS 313 METAPHOR LECTURE VIII . 351 LECTURE IX . THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS PAGE 403.
... LECTURE IV . PHONETIC CHANGE 174 LECTURE V. 213 GRIMM'S LAW . LECTURE VI . ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ETYMOLOGY 254 LECTURE VII . ON THE POWERS OF ROOTS 313 METAPHOR LECTURE VIII . 351 LECTURE IX . THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS PAGE 403.
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... etymology of pro- nouns , and many other questions of the highest in- terest to the philologist , find their true solution in Southern Africa . " - Africa answers to that of the Hottentot and Bushman . " - " It may be conceived as ...
... etymology of pro- nouns , and many other questions of the highest in- terest to the philologist , find their true solution in Southern Africa . " - Africa answers to that of the Hottentot and Bushman . " - " It may be conceived as ...
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... etymology even where they have to deal with dialects never reduced as yet to a fixed stand- ard by the influence of a national literature , never written down at all , and never analyzed before by grammatical science . The whole of the ...
... etymology even where they have to deal with dialects never reduced as yet to a fixed stand- ard by the influence of a national literature , never written down at all , and never analyzed before by grammatical science . The whole of the ...
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... Etymology . In the second part I mean to investigate what may be called the soul or the inside of language ; exam- ining the first conceptions that claimed utterance , their combinations and ramifications , their growth , their decay ...
... Etymology . In the second part I mean to investigate what may be called the soul or the inside of language ; exam- ining the first conceptions that claimed utterance , their combinations and ramifications , their growth , their decay ...
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... etymological equivalent , is now applied to rock - crystal , quartz , and flint . In like manner , from a similar misapplication of salt , in scientific use , chemists class the substance of which junk - bottles , French mirrors ...
... etymological equivalent , is now applied to rock - crystal , quartz , and flint . In like manner , from a similar misapplication of salt , in scientific use , chemists class the substance of which junk - bottles , French mirrors ...
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