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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... seems to miss the high end at which it aims . dialects of Ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative philologist ...
... seems to miss the high end at which it aims . dialects of Ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative philologist ...
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... seem incredible to those who only glance at them from a distance . Their incredulity will hereafter prove the greatest compliment that could have been paid to these emi- nent scholars.1 What we at present call the Cunei- form ...
... seem incredible to those who only glance at them from a distance . Their incredulity will hereafter prove the greatest compliment that could have been paid to these emi- nent scholars.1 What we at present call the Cunei- form ...
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... seems right , on the one side , that an historical inquiry into his origin and development should never be allowed to sever itself from the general body of natural science , and in particular from physiology . But , on the other hand ...
... seems right , on the one side , that an historical inquiry into his origin and development should never be allowed to sever itself from the general body of natural science , and in particular from physiology . But , on the other hand ...
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... seem more plausible to look on the modern participle in English as 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 ...
... seem more plausible to look on the modern participle in English as 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 ...
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... seem , are inca- pable of appreciating more than one 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 ...
... seem , are inca- pable of appreciating more than one 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 ...
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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