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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... fact , in exactly the same spirit in which the geolo- gist treats his stones and petrifactions , nay , in some respects , in the same spirit in which the astron- omer treats the stars of heaven , or the botanist the flowers of the field ...
... fact , in exactly the same spirit in which the geolo- gist treats his stones and petrifactions , nay , in some respects , in the same spirit in which the astron- omer treats the stars of heaven , or the botanist the flowers of the field ...
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... 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 most effective cross ...
... 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 most effective cross ...
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... facts , have to be sifted , before they can be allowed to occupy even a tem- porary place in our handbooks , or before we should feel justified in rectifying accordingly the frontiers on the great map of the languages of mankind . Thus ...
... facts , have to be sifted , before they can be allowed to occupy even a tem- porary place in our handbooks , or before we should feel justified in rectifying accordingly the frontiers on the great map of the languages of mankind . Thus ...
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... fact that , at a very remote , but a very real period in the history of the world , the ancestors of the Homeric poets and of the poets of the Veda must have lived together as members of one and the same race , as speakers of one and ...
... fact that , at a very remote , but a very real period in the history of the world , the ancestors of the Homeric poets and of the poets of the Veda must have lived together as members of one and the same race , as speakers of one and ...
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... facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning ... fact is , that the vulgar or dialectic expres- sion , " he is a - going , " is far more correct than " he is going ...
... facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning ... fact is , that the vulgar or dialectic expres- sion , " he is a - going , " is far more correct than " he is going ...
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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