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He discovers in the lower animals rudimentary indications of the more perfect
organization of the higher ; and he becomes impressed with the conviction that
there is in the animal kingdom the same order and purpose which pervades the ...
He discovers in the lower animals rudimentary indications of the more perfect
organization of the higher ; and he becomes impressed with the conviction that
there is in the animal kingdom the same order and purpose which pervades the ...
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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
produced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the
Hottentots ...
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
produced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the
Hottentots ...
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The languages of highly civilized nations , on the contrary , become more and
more stationary , and seem - sometimes almost to lose their power of change .
Where there is a classical literature , and where its language is spread to every
town ...
The languages of highly civilized nations , on the contrary , become more and
more stationary , and seem - sometimes almost to lose their power of change .
Where there is a classical literature , and where its language is spread to every
town ...
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As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them , the
poet and the philosopher become the lords of language only if they know its laws
and obey them . When the Emperor Tiberius had made a mistake , and was ...
As man is the lord of nature only if he knows her laws and submits to them , the
poet and the philosopher become the lords of language only if they know its laws
and obey them . When the Emperor Tiberius had made a mistake , and was ...
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The life of language has become benumbed and extinct in those words or
portions of words which show the first traces of this phonetic mould . Henceforth
those words or portions of words can be kept up only artificially or by tradition ;
and ...
The life of language has become benumbed and extinct in those words or
portions of words which show the first traces of this phonetic mould . Henceforth
those words or portions of words can be kept up only artificially or by tradition ;
and ...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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