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87 LECTURE IV . THE CLASSIFICATORY STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF
LANGUAGE ...... 115 LECTURE V. TIE GENEALOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF
LANGUAGES ... 166 LECTURE VI . COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR 214 LECTURE
VII .
87 LECTURE IV . THE CLASSIFICATORY STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF
LANGUAGE ...... 115 LECTURE V. TIE GENEALOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF
LANGUAGES ... 166 LECTURE VI . COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR 214 LECTURE
VII .
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WHEN I was asked some time ago to deliver a course of lectures on Comparative
Philology in this Institution , I at once expressed my readiness to do so . I had
lived long enough in England to know that the peculiar difficulties arising from my
...
WHEN I was asked some time ago to deliver a course of lectures on Comparative
Philology in this Institution , I at once expressed my readiness to do so . I had
lived long enough in England to know that the peculiar difficulties arising from my
...
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... confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new
science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology ,
Phonology , and Glosears . 1 sology . In France it has received the
INTRODUCTION .
... confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new
science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology ,
Phonology , and Glosears . 1 sology . In France it has received the
INTRODUCTION .
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... which belongs to the titles of other modern sciences , such as Geology or
Comparative Anatomy ; nor will there be much difficulty in christening our young
science after we have once ascertained its birth , its parentage , and its character
.
... which belongs to the titles of other modern sciences , such as Geology or
Comparative Anatomy ; nor will there be much difficulty in christening our young
science after we have once ascertained its birth , its parentage , and its character
.
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... and that a butcher has no claim to the title of comparative anatomist . 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 ...
... and that a butcher has no claim to the title of comparative anatomist . 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 ...
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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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