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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... Italian husbandman , because in Italy , where they became visible about May , they marked the return of summer.2 Another constellation , the seven stars in the head of Taurus , received the name of Hyades or Pluvice in Latin , because ...
... Italian husbandman , because in Italy , where they became visible about May , they marked the return of summer.2 Another constellation , the seven stars in the head of Taurus , received the name of Hyades or Pluvice in Latin , because ...
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... Italians call a dilettante , from di- lettare , to delight . The real science of plants , like every other science , begins with the work of classi- fication . An empirical acquaintance with facts rises to a scientific knowledge of ...
... Italians call a dilettante , from di- lettare , to delight . The real science of plants , like every other science , begins with the work of classi- fication . An empirical acquaintance with facts rises to a scientific knowledge of ...
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... Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Provençal , French , Wallachian , and Rou- mansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ancient dialects of India ...
... Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Provençal , French , Wallachian , and Rou- mansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , to- gether likewise with the ancient dialects of India ...
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... Italian only allow of plus for the same purpose : Ital . più dolce ; Prov . plus dous ; Fr. plus doux . It is by no means impossible , however , that this distinction between very , which is now used with adjectives only , and much ...
... Italian only allow of plus for the same purpose : Ital . più dolce ; Prov . plus dous ; Fr. plus doux . It is by no means impossible , however , that this distinction between very , which is now used with adjectives only , and much ...
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... Italian , though the adverbial termination mente in claramente is no longer felt as a distinct word , it has not as yet been affected by phonetic corruption ; and in Spanish it is sometimes used as a distinct word , though even then it ...
... Italian , though the adverbial termination mente in claramente is no longer felt as a distinct word , it has not as yet been affected by phonetic corruption ; and in Spanish it is sometimes used as a distinct word , though even then it ...
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