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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... English audience , and I had such perfect faith in my subject that I thought it might be trusted even in the hands of a less skilful expositor . I felt convinced that the researches into the history of languages and into the nature of ...
... English audience , and I had such perfect faith in my subject that I thought it might be trusted even in the hands of a less skilful expositor . I felt convinced that the researches into the history of languages and into the nature of ...
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... English moon has been changed into a feminine , and sun into a mascu- line . It was a most unlucky assertion which Mr. Har- ris made in his Hermes , that all nations ascribe to the sun a masculine , and to the moon a feminine gender.2 ...
... English moon has been changed into a feminine , and sun into a mascu- line . It was a most unlucky assertion which Mr. Har- ris made in his Hermes , that all nations ascribe to the sun a masculine , and to the moon a feminine gender.2 ...
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... English of the present day that we have to study it in the same manner as we study Greek and Latin . We can read Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and Chaucer ; but , when we come to the English of the ...
... English of the present day that we have to study it in the same manner as we study Greek and Latin . We can read Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and Chaucer ; but , when we come to the English of the ...
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... English Language , by G. P. Marsh : New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much careful research , and are full of valuable observations . 2 Marsh , p . 532 , note . lilac , and gold , and some courteous ...
... English Language , by G. P. Marsh : New York , 1860 , p . 263 and 630. These lectures embody the result of much careful research , and are full of valuable observations . 2 Marsh , p . 532 , note . lilac , and gold , and some courteous ...
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... English before Wordsworth . Handbook , 2 though an old Anglo - Saxon word , has but lately taken the place of manual , and a number of words such as cab for cabri- olet , buss for omnibus , and even a verb such as to shunt tremble still ...
... English before Wordsworth . Handbook , 2 though an old Anglo - Saxon word , has but lately taken the place of manual , and a number of words such as cab for cabri- olet , buss for omnibus , and even a verb such as to shunt tremble still ...
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