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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... things that were merely elementary , and I'made several additions in order to show the bearing of the Science of Lan- guage on some of the more important problems of philosophy and religion . Whilst expressing my gratitude to the ...
... things that were merely elementary , and I'made several additions in order to show the bearing of the Science of Lan- guage on some of the more important problems of philosophy and religion . Whilst expressing my gratitude to the ...
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... thing I feel more strongly than ever , namely , that , without the Science of Language , the circle of the physical ... things , the Science of Language has a right to hold that place which I claimed for it when addressing for the first ...
... thing I feel more strongly than ever , namely , that , without the Science of Language , the circle of the physical ... things , the Science of Language has a right to hold that place which I claimed for it when addressing for the first ...
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... 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 , is but a dream of continental pro- fessors.1 How are ...
... 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 , is but a dream of continental pro- fessors.1 How are ...
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... things with our own eyes , to handle them , and to learn how every pebble that we pick up points a lesson of the widest range . I believe it is the same in the Science of Language . One word , however common , of our own dialect , if ...
... things with our own eyes , to handle them , and to learn how every pebble that we pick up points a lesson of the widest range . I believe it is the same in the Science of Language . One word , however common , of our own dialect , if ...
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... things , according to the difference of ac- cent , so that people never speak without singing . " 1 This description , though somewhat exaggerated , is correct in the main , there being six or eight musical accents or modulations in ...
... things , according to the difference of ac- cent , so that people never speak without singing . " 1 This description , though somewhat exaggerated , is correct in the main , there being six or eight musical accents or modulations in ...
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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