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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... Ulfilas into that of Charlemagne , the language of Charlemagne into that of Goethe . We have reason to believe that the same changes take place with even greater violence and rapidity in the dialects of savage tribes , although , in the ...
... Ulfilas into that of Charlemagne , the language of Charlemagne into that of Goethe . We have reason to believe that the same changes take place with even greater violence and rapidity in the dialects of savage tribes , although , in the ...
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... Ulfilas . What then are we to do ? — We must try to do what is done when we have to deal with the modern Romance languages . If we could not trace a French word back to Latin , we should look for its correspond- ing form in Italian ...
... Ulfilas . What then are we to do ? — We must try to do what is done when we have to deal with the modern Romance languages . If we could not trace a French word back to Latin , we should look for its correspond- ing form in Italian ...
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... Ulfilas . I must say a few words on this remarkable man . The accounts of ecclesiastical historians with regard to the date and the principal events in the life of Ulfilas are very contradictory . This is partly owing to the fact that ...
... Ulfilas . I must say a few words on this remarkable man . The accounts of ecclesiastical historians with regard to the date and the principal events in the life of Ulfilas are very contradictory . This is partly owing to the fact that ...
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... Ulfilas written by Auxentius , the bishop of Dorostorum ( Silistria on the Danube ) , a pupil of Ulfilas . This is followed again by some dissertations of Maximinus , and on foll . 314-327 , a treatise ad- dressed to Ambrose by a Semi ...
... Ulfilas written by Auxentius , the bishop of Dorostorum ( Silistria on the Danube ) , a pupil of Ulfilas . This is followed again by some dissertations of Maximinus , and on foll . 314-327 , a treatise ad- dressed to Ambrose by a Semi ...
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... Ulfilas and his friends . If , on the contrary , Ulfilas died at Constantinople in 381 , he might well have been called there by the Emperor Theodosius , not to a council , but to a dispu- tation ( ad disputationem ) , as Dr. Bessell ...
... Ulfilas and his friends . If , on the contrary , Ulfilas died at Constantinople in 381 , he might well have been called there by the Emperor Theodosius , not to a council , but to a dispu- tation ( ad disputationem ) , as Dr. Bessell ...
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