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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... originally ? A mere conglomerate of wedges , engraved or impressed on the solitary mon- ument of Cyrus in the Murgháb , on the ruins of Persepolis , on the rocks of Behistún near the fron- tiers of Media , and the precipice of Van in ...
... originally ? A mere conglomerate of wedges , engraved or impressed on the solitary mon- ument of Cyrus in the Murgháb , on the ruins of Persepolis , on the rocks of Behistún near the fron- tiers of Media , and the precipice of Van in ...
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... originally the wind from the mountains , and more particularly from the Rhipæan mountains . ( See Preller , Grie- chische Mythologie , i . 157. ) Boros , from which Boreas , is another form of oros , mountain , both derived from the ...
... originally the wind from the mountains , and more particularly from the Rhipæan mountains . ( See Preller , Grie- chische Mythologie , i . 157. ) Boros , from which Boreas , is another form of oros , mountain , both derived from the ...
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... originally came . This supposition , indeed , is strength- ened by the resemblance which appears to subsist between the Copts and Hottentots in general appearance . " ( Appleyard , The Kafir Language . 1850. ) " Since the Hottentot race ...
... originally came . This supposition , indeed , is strength- ened by the resemblance which appears to subsist between the Copts and Hottentots in general appearance . " ( Appleyard , The Kafir Language . 1850. ) " Since the Hottentot race ...
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... originally such patronymics . Thus we have the villages 1 of Malling , of Billing , & c . , or in compounds , Malling- ton , Billingborough . In Walsingham , the home of the Walsings , the memory of the famous race of the Walsings may ...
... originally such patronymics . Thus we have the villages 1 of Malling , of Billing , & c . , or in compounds , Malling- ton , Billingborough . In Walsingham , the home of the Walsings , the memory of the famous race of the Walsings may ...
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... originally an adjective in ing , such popular phrases as a - going , a - thinking , point rather to the verbal substantives in ing as the source from which the modern English participle was derived . “ I am going " is in reality a ...
... originally an adjective in ing , such popular phrases as a - going , a - thinking , point rather to the verbal substantives in ing as the source from which the modern English participle was derived . “ I am going " is in reality a ...
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