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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... becomes impressed with the conviction that there is in the animal kingdom the same order and purpose which pervades the endless variety of plants or any other realm of nature . He learns , if he did not know it before , that things were ...
... becomes impressed with the conviction that there is in the animal kingdom the same order and purpose which pervades the endless variety of plants or any other realm of nature . He learns , if he did not know it before , that things were ...
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... becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as important ...
... becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as important ...
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... 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 and village , it seems almost im- possible that any ...
... 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 and village , it seems almost im- possible that any ...
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... become the lords of language only if they know its laws and obey them . 66 When the Emperor Tiberius had made a mistake , and was reproved for it by Marcellus , another gramma- rian of the name of Capito , who happened to be pres- ent ...
... become the lords of language only if they know its laws and obey them . 66 When the Emperor Tiberius had made a mistake , and was reproved for it by Marcellus , another gramma- rian of the name of Capito , who happened to be pres- ent ...
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... become be- numbed 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 , what is ...
... become be- numbed 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 , what is ...
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