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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... considered safe after the return of the Pleiades ; and it closed when they disappeared . The Latin name for the Pleiades is Vergiliæ , from virga , a sprout or twig . This name was given to them by the Italian husbandman , because in ...
... considered safe after the return of the Pleiades ; and it closed when they disappeared . The Latin name for the Pleiades is Vergiliæ , from virga , a sprout or twig . This name was given to them by the Italian husbandman , because in ...
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... Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as by later astronomers , Sir David Brewster remarks very truly , " that , as an instrument of research THEORETICAL STAGE . 29.
... Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as by later astronomers , Sir David Brewster remarks very truly , " that , as an instrument of research THEORETICAL STAGE . 29.
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... considered suffi- cient ground for excluding language from the domain of natural science , there would still remain the greater - 1 Names in ic , are names of classes as distinct from the names of single languages . + · 7 difficulty of ...
... considered suffi- cient ground for excluding language from the domain of natural science , there would still remain the greater - 1 Names in ic , are names of classes as distinct from the names of single languages . + · 7 difficulty of ...
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... considered to be the most essential character of all human speech , namely , that every part of it 1 should have a meaning . The people who spoke San- skrit were as little aware that vin'sati meant twice ten as a Frenchman is that vingt ...
... considered to be the most essential character of all human speech , namely , that every part of it 1 should have a meaning . The people who spoke San- skrit were as little aware that vin'sati meant twice ten as a Frenchman is that vingt ...
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... considered as artificial , rather than as natural forms of speech . The real and natural life of language is in its dialects , and in spite of the tyranny exercised by the classical or literary idioms , the day is still very far off ...
... considered as artificial , rather than as natural forms of speech . The real and natural life of language is in its dialects , and in spite of the tyranny exercised by the classical or literary idioms , the day is still very far off ...
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