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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... ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tale . Geometry , which at present declares itself free from all sensuous impressions , and treats of its points and lines and planes as purely ideal conceptions , not to be con ...
... ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tale . Geometry , which at present declares itself free from all sensuous impressions , and treats of its points and lines and planes as purely ideal conceptions , not to be con ...
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... ancient world , is in truth a disease of language . A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an at- tribute , has been allowed to assume a more substantial existence . Most of the Greek , the Roman , the Indian ...
... ancient world , is in truth a disease of language . A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an at- tribute , has been allowed to assume a more substantial existence . Most of the Greek , the Roman , the Indian ...
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... ancient philosophers as a mere illusion , as an agglomerate of atoms , or as the work of an evil principle , we now read and interpret its pages as the power , and wisdom , and love . study of nature a new character . has collected his ...
... ancient philosophers as a mere illusion , as an agglomerate of atoms , or as the work of an evil principle , we now read and interpret its pages as the power , and wisdom , and love . study of nature a new character . has collected his ...
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... ancient Greek philoso- pher , by Philolaus , the Pythagorean . No doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if you like , a happy intuition . Nevertheless , if we may trust the words of Copernicus , it is ...
... ancient Greek philoso- pher , by Philolaus , the Pythagorean . No doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if you like , a happy intuition . Nevertheless , if we may trust the words of Copernicus , it is ...
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... ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated simply as a means . The classical scholar uses Greek or Latin , the oriental scholar Hebrew or San- skrit , or any other ...
... ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated simply as a means . The classical scholar uses Greek or Latin , the oriental scholar Hebrew or San- skrit , or any other ...
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