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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... philosophers . - It was at first my intention , in the present course of lectures , to fill in greater detail the outlines of that map . Materials for this are abundant and steadily increasing . The works of Hervas , Adelung , Klaproth ...
... philosophers . - It was at first my intention , in the present course of lectures , to fill in greater detail the outlines of that map . Materials for this are abundant and steadily increasing . The works of Hervas , Adelung , Klaproth ...
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... revelation of something that wants to manifest and to reveal itself . It would be differ- ent if language had been invented by agreement ; if certain wise kings , priests , and philosophers had put LECTURE II LANGUAGE AND REASON.
... revelation of something that wants to manifest and to reveal itself . It would be differ- ent if language had been invented by agreement ; if certain wise kings , priests , and philosophers had put LECTURE II LANGUAGE AND REASON.
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... philosophers had put their heads together and decreed that certain con- ceptions should be labelled and ticketed with certain sounds . In that case we might speak of the sound as the outside , of the ideas as the inside of language ...
... philosophers had put their heads together and decreed that certain con- ceptions should be labelled and ticketed with certain sounds . In that case we might speak of the sound as the outside , of the ideas as the inside of language ...
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... philosopher , who was in such frequent correspondence with members of that society . Now , though it has been the fashion to sneer at Bishop Wilkins and his Universal Language , his work seems to me , as far as I can judge , to offer ...
... philosopher , who was in such frequent correspondence with members of that society . Now , though it has been the fashion to sneer at Bishop Wilkins and his Universal Language , his work seems to me , as far as I can judge , to offer ...
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... philosophers thought they could 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 ...
... philosophers thought they could 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 ...
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