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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... kind to be treated ? However startling and par- adoxical in appearance , they must be examined be- fore we can either accept or reject them . " Science , " as Bunsen 2 said , “ excludes no suppositions , however strange they may appear ...
... kind to be treated ? However startling and par- adoxical in appearance , they must be examined be- fore we can either accept or reject them . " Science , " as Bunsen 2 said , “ excludes no suppositions , however strange they may appear ...
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... kind of likeness , and who would fain con- fine the whole ocean of living speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as " he is a - going , I am a - coming ...
... kind of likeness , and who would fain con- fine the whole ocean of living speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as " he is a - going , I am a - coming ...
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... kind of evidence . No doubt the evidence on which the relationship of French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithu- anian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence ...
... kind of evidence . No doubt the evidence on which the relationship of French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithu- anian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence ...
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... kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature of the things which they signified ; this would yet be a farther advantage superadded , by which , besides the best way of ...
... kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature of the things which they signified ; this would yet be a farther advantage superadded , by which , besides the best way of ...
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... kind , cause , differences , end , means , mode . Here , under kind , we should find such notions as being , thing , notion , name , substance , accident , & c . Under notions of cause , we meet with author , tool , aim , stuff , & c ...
... kind , cause , differences , end , means , mode . Here , under kind , we should find such notions as being , thing , notion , name , substance , accident , & c . Under notions of cause , we meet with author , tool , aim , stuff , & c ...
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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