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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... than with his reason . In spite of the strong con- demnation which Luther pronounced against astrology , 99 1 Bunsen's Egypt , vol . iv . p . 108 . astrology continued to sway the destinies of Europe ; and EMPIRICAL STAGE . 19.
... than with his reason . In spite of the strong con- demnation which Luther pronounced against astrology , 99 1 Bunsen's Egypt , vol . iv . p . 108 . astrology continued to sway the destinies of Europe ; and EMPIRICAL STAGE . 19.
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Friedrich Max Müller. astrology continued to sway the destinies of Europe ; and a hundred years after Luther , the astrologer was the counsellor of princes and generals , while the founder of modern astronomy died in poverty and despair ...
Friedrich Max Müller. astrology continued to sway the destinies of Europe ; and a hundred years after Luther , the astrologer was the counsellor of princes and generals , while the founder of modern astronomy died in poverty and despair ...
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... Europe ; and in America comparative philologists have been encour- aged to prove the impossibility of a common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I ...
... Europe ; and in America comparative philologists have been encour- aged to prove the impossibility of a common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I ...
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... Europe . In comparative philology the case is totally different . In the science of language , languages are not treated as a means ; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never pro- duced ...
... Europe . In comparative philology the case is totally different . In the science of language , languages are not treated as a means ; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never pro- duced ...
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... European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the ...
... European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the ...
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