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Page 13
We cannot trace its lineage much beyond the beginning of our century , and it is
scarcely received as yet on a footing of equality by the elder branches of learning
. Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it ...
We cannot trace its lineage much beyond the beginning of our century , and it is
scarcely received as yet on a footing of equality by the elder branches of learning
. Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it ...
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This is perfectly true , yet it is but right that each science should be reminded of
these its more humble beginnings , and of the practical requirements which it was
originally intended to A science , as Bacon says , should be a rich storehouse for
...
This is perfectly true , yet it is but right that each science should be reminded of
these its more humble beginnings , and of the practical requirements which it was
originally intended to A science , as Bacon says , should be a rich storehouse for
...
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... absolute law . Besides , there are great chasms in the history of science . The
tradition of generations is broken by political or ethnic earthquakes , and the work
that was nearly finished has frequently had to be done again from the beginning
...
... absolute law . Besides , there are great chasms in the history of science . The
tradition of generations is broken by political or ethnic earthquakes , and the work
that was nearly finished has frequently had to be done again from the beginning
...
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It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can
hardly be less than nine hun• dred . That this vast field should never have excited
the curiosity of the natural philosopher before the beginning of our century ...
It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can
hardly be less than nine hun• dred . That this vast field should never have excited
the curiosity of the natural philosopher before the beginning of our century ...
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But whether the verb or the noun was the first to be invented is of little importance
; nor is it possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of
language , to enter upon a minute examination of a theory which represents ...
But whether the verb or the noun was the first to be invented is of little importance
; nor is it possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of
language , to enter upon a minute examination of a theory which represents ...
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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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