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2 S. F. Waldeck , Lettre à M. Jomard des environs de Palenque , Amé rique
Centrale . ( “ Il ne pouvait se servir , en 1833 , d'un vocabulaire composé avec
beaucoup de soin dix ans auparavant . ” ) national empires . Hervas reduces ,
indeed ...
2 S. F. Waldeck , Lettre à M. Jomard des environs de Palenque , Amé rique
Centrale . ( “ Il ne pouvait se servir , en 1833 , d'un vocabulaire composé avec
beaucoup de soin dix ans auparavant . ” ) national empires . Hervas reduces ,
indeed ...
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national empires . Hervas reduces , indeed , all the dialects of America to eleven
families 1 - four for the south , and seven for the north ; but this could be done
only by the same careful and minute comparison which enables us to class the ...
national empires . Hervas reduces , indeed , all the dialects of America to eleven
families 1 - four for the south , and seven for the north ; but this could be done
only by the same careful and minute comparison which enables us to class the ...
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... hitherto almost entirely unknown and unstudied , which are current in the
empire of your Majesty and on its frontiers , should be reduced to writing ; also
that dictionaries , or at least small vocabularies , should be collected , and
translations ...
... hitherto almost entirely unknown and unstudied , which are current in the
empire of your Majesty and on its frontiers , should be reduced to writing ; also
that dictionaries , or at least small vocabularies , should be collected , and
translations ...
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Although Peter the Great had no time or taste for philological studies , the
government kept the idea of collecting all • the languages of the Russian empire
steadily in view.1 Still greater luck was in store for the science of language .
Having ...
Although Peter the Great had no time or taste for philological studies , the
government kept the idea of collecting all • the languages of the Russian empire
steadily in view.1 Still greater luck was in store for the science of language .
Having ...
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... from beyond the Danube into the Roman empire . They had to leave their
country , being persecuted on account of their Christianity . Ulfilas was the leader
of the faithful flock , and came to Constantine , ( not Constantius , ) as
ambassador .
... from beyond the Danube into the Roman empire . They had to leave their
country , being persecuted on account of their Christianity . Ulfilas was the leader
of the faithful flock , and came to Constantine , ( not Constantius , ) as
ambassador .
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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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