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 19
... idea of tracing the roots of the classical lan- guages back to Sanskrit ; and even at the present moment there are still many persons who cannot realize the fact that , at a very remote , but a very real period in the history of the ...
... idea of tracing the roots of the classical lan- guages back to Sanskrit ; and even at the present moment there are still many persons who cannot realize the fact that , at a very remote , but a very real period in the history of the ...
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... idea conveyed by the participle present can be expressed by the oblique case of a verbal noun . Let us now proceed to a more distant , yet to a cognate language , the Bengali . We there find 3 that the so - called infinitive is formed ...
... idea conveyed by the participle present can be expressed by the oblique case of a verbal noun . Let us now proceed to a more distant , yet to a cognate language , the Bengali . We there find 3 that the so - called infinitive is formed ...
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... ideas as the inside of language ; and no objection could be raised to our treating each of them separately . Why it ... idea of an artificial , still more of a universal language . But if this problem were really so absurd , a man like ...
... ideas as the inside of language ; and no objection could be raised to our treating each of them separately . Why it ... idea of an artificial , still more of a universal language . But if this problem were really so absurd , a man like ...
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... idea of what an artificial language would be , and how it would differ from living speech . The primary object of the Bishop was not to in- 1 The work of Bishop Wilkins is analyzed and criticised by Lord Monboddo , in the second volume ...
... idea of what an artificial language would be , and how it would differ from living speech . The primary object of the Bishop was not to in- 1 The work of Bishop Wilkins is analyzed and criticised by Lord Monboddo , in the second volume ...
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... idea . We have besides such signs as + plus , minus , X to be multiplied , ― to be divided , = equal , < greater , > smaller , O sun , moon , earth , 2 Jupiter , Saturn , ♂ Mars , ? Venus , & c . , which are intelligible to mathemati ...
... idea . We have besides such signs as + plus , minus , X to be multiplied , ― to be divided , = equal , < greater , > smaller , O sun , moon , earth , 2 Jupiter , Saturn , ♂ Mars , ? Venus , & c . , which are intelligible to mathemati ...
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