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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... nature and a flint- head a work of art . It is different in the Science of Language . There , the controversies about the great problems have not yet subsided . The questions whether language is a work of nature or a work of art ...
... nature and a flint- head a work of art . It is different in the Science of Language . There , the controversies about the great problems have not yet subsided . The questions whether language is a work of nature or a work of art ...
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... natural creation tends towards man : with- out man , nature would be incomplete and purpose- less . The Science of Man , therefore , or , as it is sometimes called , Anthropology , must form the crown of all the natural sciences . And ...
... natural creation tends towards man : with- out man , nature would be incomplete and purpose- less . The Science of Man , therefore , or , as it is sometimes called , Anthropology , must form the crown of all the natural sciences . And ...
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... natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then eth- nological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the ...
... natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then eth- nological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the ...
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... nature of speech and the origin of roots . We may accept it , I believe , as a general principle that what is real in modern forma- tions is possible in more ancient formations ; that what has been found to be true on a small scale 1 ...
... nature of speech and the origin of roots . We may accept it , I believe , as a general principle that what is real in modern forma- tions is possible in more ancient formations ; that what has been found to be true on a small scale 1 ...
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... nature of the case , it is impossible to supply . As well might the geologist look for fos- sils in granite ! The Turanian languages allow of no grammatical petrifactions like those on which the relationship of the Aryan and Semitic ...
... nature of the case , it is impossible to supply . As well might the geologist look for fos- sils in granite ! The Turanian languages allow of no grammatical petrifactions like those on which the relationship of the Aryan and Semitic ...
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