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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... branches of learning . Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it in England , France , and Germany are so vague and vary- ing that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at ...
... branches of learning . Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it in England , France , and Germany are so vague and vary- ing that they have led to the most confused ideas among the public at ...
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... a lesson for which other branches of human knowledge have had to pay more dearly . There is a certain uniformity in the history of most sciences . If we read such works as Whewell's His- 14 HISTORY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES .
... a lesson for which other branches of human knowledge have had to pay more dearly . There is a certain uniformity in the history of most sciences . If we read such works as Whewell's His- 14 HISTORY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES .
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... branch of human knowledge . There are three marked periods or stages in the history of every one ⚫ of them , which we may call the Empirical , the Clas - Comte . sificatory , and the Theoretical . However humiliating it may sound ...
... branch of human knowledge . There are three marked periods or stages in the history of every one ⚫ of them , which we may call the Empirical , the Clas - Comte . sificatory , and the Theoretical . However humiliating it may sound ...
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... branches of the study of nature . In the history of the physical sciences , however , we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology , and 1 Die Pflanze und ihr Leben , von M. T. Schleiden . Leipzig , 1858 . This involves ...
... branches of the study of nature . In the history of the physical sciences , however , we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology , and 1 Die Pflanze und ihr Leben , von M. T. Schleiden . Leipzig , 1858 . This involves ...
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... branch of physical research . 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 ...
... branch of physical research . 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 ...
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