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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... thought , supply materials ca- pable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their origin , govern ...
... thought , supply materials ca- pable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements , and deduce from them some of the laws that determine their origin , govern ...
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... thought.1 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 most primitive ...
... thought.1 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 most primitive ...
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... thought it best , therefore , to devote the present course of lectures to the examination of a very lim- ited area of speech , - -to English , French , German , Latin , and Greek , and , of course , to Sanskrit , — in order to discover ...
... thought it best , therefore , to devote the present course of lectures to the examination of a very lim- ited area of speech , - -to English , French , German , Latin , and Greek , and , of course , to Sanskrit , — in order to discover ...
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... thought I heard the twittering of birds , and I gave up all hope of ever learning it . All words are monosyllabic , and people distinguish their significations only by means of dif- ferent accents in pronouncing them . The same syl ...
... thought I heard the twittering of birds , and I gave up all hope of ever learning it . All words are monosyllabic , and people distinguish their significations only by means of dif- ferent accents in pronouncing them . The same syl ...
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... thought of once , but never again . It is per- fectly true that such principles as the Te pi and the Ukuhlonipa could never become powerful agents in the literary languages of civilized nations , and that we must not look for traces of ...
... thought of once , but never again . It is per- fectly true that such principles as the Te pi and the Ukuhlonipa could never become powerful agents in the literary languages of civilized nations , and that we must not look for traces of ...
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