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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... earth , the Danae of old , kept by her father in the dark prison of winter . No one doubts that Luna was simply a name of the moon ; but so was likewise Lucina , both derived - from lucere , to shine . Hecate , too , EMPIRICAL STAGE . 21.
... earth , the Danae of old , kept by her father in the dark prison of winter . No one doubts that Luna was simply a name of the moon ; but so was likewise Lucina , both derived - from lucere , to shine . Hecate , too , EMPIRICAL STAGE . 21.
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... doubt has fre- quently met with the fate of Phaeton ; but , undis- mayed by failure , he asks again and again for his father's steeds . It has been said that this so - called philosophy of nature has never achieved anything ; that it ...
... doubt has fre- quently met with the fate of Phaeton ; but , undis- mayed by failure , he asks again and again for his father's steeds . It has been said that this so - called philosophy of nature has never achieved anything ; that it ...
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... doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if you like , a happy intuition . Nevertheless , if we may trust the words of Copernicus , it is quite possible that without that guess we should never have heard of ...
... doubt with Philolaus the motion of the earth was only a guess , or , if you like , a happy intuition . Nevertheless , if we may trust the words of Copernicus , it is quite possible that without that guess we should never have heard of ...
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... doubt the natural one , and it is very properly observed in the study of every science . The student of botany begins as a collector of plants . Taking each plant by itself , he observes its peculiar character , its habitat , its proper ...
... doubt the natural one , and it is very properly observed in the study of every science . The student of botany begins as a collector of plants . Taking each plant by itself , he observes its peculiar character , its habitat , its proper ...
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... doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and critically in a number of literary works representing the various periods of its growth . Nevertheless ...
... doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and critically in a number of literary works representing the various periods of its growth . Nevertheless ...
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