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... ocean , watched for the rising of those stars which he called the Sailingstars or
Pleiades , from plein , to sail . Navigation in the Muads . Greek waters was
considered safe after the return of the Pleiades ; and it closed when they
disappeared .
... ocean , watched for the rising of those stars which he called the Sailingstars or
Pleiades , from plein , to sail . Navigation in the Muads . Greek waters was
considered safe after the return of the Pleiades ; and it closed when they
disappeared .
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When speaking of Kepler , 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 ...
When speaking of Kepler , 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 ...
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And even if the mere local varieties of speech were not considered sufficient
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 ...
And even if the mere local varieties of speech were not considered sufficient
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 ...
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As soon as phonetic corruption shows itself in a language , that language has
lost what we considered to be the most essential character of all human speech ,
namely , that every part of it 7 should have a meaning . The people who spoke ...
As soon as phonetic corruption shows itself in a language , that language has
lost what we considered to be the most essential character of all human speech ,
namely , that every part of it 7 should have a meaning . The people who spoke ...
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What we are accustomed to call languages , the literary idioms of Greece , and
Rome , and India , of Italy , France , and Spain , must be considered as artificial ,
rather than as natural forms as of speech . The real and natural life of language is
...
What we are accustomed to call languages , the literary idioms of Greece , and
Rome , and India , of Italy , France , and Spain , must be considered as artificial ,
rather than as natural forms as of speech . The real and natural life of language is
...
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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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