Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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... Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ancient dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we ...
... Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ancient dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we ...
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... Celtic , Saxon , Norman , and English . But if we speak of the history of the English language , we enter on totally different ground . The English lan- ☛guage was never Celtic , the Celtic never grew into Saxon , nor the Saxon into ...
... Celtic , Saxon , Norman , and English . But if we speak of the history of the English language , we enter on totally different ground . The English lan- ☛guage was never Celtic , the Celtic never grew into Saxon , nor the Saxon into ...
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... Celtic and English blood may be mixed ; and who could tell at the pres- ent day the exact proportion of Celtic and Saxon blood in the population of England ? But languages are never mixed . It is indifferent by what name the language ...
... Celtic and English blood may be mixed ; and who could tell at the pres- ent day the exact proportion of Celtic and Saxon blood in the population of England ? But languages are never mixed . It is indifferent by what name the language ...
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Friedrich Max Müller. can detect , by his own tests , Celtic , Norman , Greek , and Latin ingredients , but not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the organic system of the Eng- lish language . The grammar , the blood and ...
Friedrich Max Müller. can detect , by his own tests , Celtic , Norman , Greek , and Latin ingredients , but not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the organic system of the Eng- lish language . The grammar , the blood and ...
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... - dently derived from the most distant sources as English . Every country of the globe seems to have brought some of its verbal manufactures to the intellectual market of - England . Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Celtic NO MIXED LANGUAGE . 83.
... - dently derived from the most distant sources as English . Every country of the globe seems to have brought some of its verbal manufactures to the intellectual market of - England . Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Celtic NO MIXED LANGUAGE . 83.
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