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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... speech and Saxon thought . Or we may proceed to our very antipodes , and study the idiom of the Hawaian islanders , and watch in the laws and edicts of Kamé- haméha the working of the same human faculty of speech which , even in its ...
... speech and Saxon thought . Or we may proceed to our very antipodes , and study the idiom of the Hawaian islanders , and watch in the laws and edicts of Kamé- haméha the working of the same human faculty of speech which , even in its ...
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... speech . The rock inscriptions of Persia show what can be achieved by our science . I do not wonder that the discoveries due to the genius and the perse- vering industry of Grotefend , Burnouf , Lassen , and last , not least , of ...
... speech . The rock inscriptions of Persia show what can be achieved by our science . I do not wonder that the discoveries due to the genius and the perse- vering industry of Grotefend , Burnouf , Lassen , and last , not least , of ...
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... speech . " It is perhaps not too much to say , " he writes ( Preface , page viii ) , " that similar results may at present be expected from a deeper study of such primitive forms of lan- guage as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit , as ...
... speech . " It is perhaps not too much to say , " he writes ( Preface , page viii ) , " that similar results may at present be expected from a deeper study of such primitive forms of lan- guage as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit , as ...
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... speech , we are warned by others that there is no such thing as an Aryan or Indo - European family of languages , that Sanskrit has no relationship with Greek , and that Comparative Philology , as hitherto treated by Bopp and others ...
... speech , we are warned by others that there is no such thing as an Aryan or Indo - European family of languages , that Sanskrit has no relationship with Greek , and that Comparative Philology , as hitherto treated by Bopp and others ...
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... speech , to English , French , German , Latin , and Greek , and , of course , to Sanskrit , — in order to discover or to establish more firmly some of the fundamental principles of the Science of Lan- guage . I believe there is no ...
... speech , to English , French , German , Latin , and Greek , and , of course , to Sanskrit , — in order to discover or to establish more firmly some of the fundamental principles of the Science of Lan- guage . I believe there is no ...
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