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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... mind . I quote from Leibniz : - " I believe truly , " he says , " that languages are the best mirror of the human mind , and that an exact analysis of the signification of words would make us better acquainted than anything else with ...
... mind . I quote from Leibniz : - " I believe truly , " he says , " that languages are the best mirror of the human mind , and that an exact analysis of the signification of words would make us better acquainted than anything else with ...
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... stow away I all the ideas that ever entered the human 1 Marsh , History of the English Language , p . 211. Liebig , Chemische Briefe , 4th edit . , i . p . 96 . mind . Under A we meet with a number of BISHOP WILKINS . 61.
... stow away I all the ideas that ever entered the human 1 Marsh , History of the English Language , p . 211. Liebig , Chemische Briefe , 4th edit . , i . p . 96 . mind . Under A we meet with a number of BISHOP WILKINS . 61.
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... mind . Under A we meet with a number of more abstract conceptions , such as kind , cause , condition , & c . By subdividing these six classes , the Bishop arrives in the end at forty classes , which , according to him , comprehend ...
... mind . Under A we meet with a number of more abstract conceptions , such as kind , cause , condition , & c . By subdividing these six classes , the Bishop arrives in the end at forty classes , which , according to him , comprehend ...
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... minds of men , considered either Collectively ; WORLD . VI . Distributively ; according to the several kinds of beings , whether such as do belong to ( Substance . Inanimate ; ELEMENT . VII . Animate ; considered according to their ...
... minds of men , considered either Collectively ; WORLD . VI . Distributively ; according to the several kinds of beings , whether such as do belong to ( Substance . Inanimate ; ELEMENT . VII . Animate ; considered according to their ...
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... minds , with names annexed to them , do thereby enable themselves to consider things , and discourse of them , as it were , in bundles , for the easier and readier improvement and communication of their knowledge , which would advance ...
... minds , with names annexed to them , do thereby enable themselves to consider things , and discourse of them , as it were , in bundles , for the easier and readier improvement and communication of their knowledge , which would advance ...
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