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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... century , and it is scarcely re- ceived 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 in England , France , and Germany are so ...
... century , and it is scarcely re- ceived 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 in England , France , and Germany are so ...
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... centuries , and finally prepared the way for the Reformation , was again , as its very name shows , a controversy on names , on the nature of language , and on the relation of words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities ...
... centuries , and finally prepared the way for the Reformation , was again , as its very name shows , a controversy on names , on the nature of language , and on the relation of words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities ...
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... century may seem surprising , more surprising even than the indifference with which for- mer generations treated the lessons which even the stones seemed to teach of the life still throbbing in the veins and on the very surface of the ...
... century may seem surprising , more surprising even than the indifference with which for- mer generations treated the lessons which even the stones seemed to teach of the life still throbbing in the veins and on the very surface of the ...
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... century , that it has retained an undisputed currency even among those who , on almost every other point , are strongly opposed to the teaching of that school . A few voices , indeed , have been raised to protest against the theory of ...
... century , that it has retained an undisputed currency even among those who , on almost every other point , are strongly opposed to the teaching of that school . A few voices , indeed , have been raised to protest against the theory of ...
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... century than at any earlier period , and the gift of song has never , as far as we know , been brought to a higher perfection by our nightin- gale than by the Philomele of the Greeks . " Natural History , " to quote Dr. Whewell's words ...
... century than at any earlier period , and the gift of song has never , as far as we know , been brought to a higher perfection by our nightin- gale than by the Philomele of the Greeks . " Natural History , " to quote Dr. Whewell's words ...
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