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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... existence . Most of the Greek , the Roman , the Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , , which were gradually allowed to assume a divine per- sonality never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a ...
... existence . Most of the Greek , the Roman , the Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , , which were gradually allowed to assume a divine per- sonality never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a ...
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... existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the faculty of receiving the different impres- sions caused by external objects , physical sensibility ; and 2 , the faculty of preserving the impressions caused by these objects ...
... existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the faculty of receiving the different impres- sions caused by external objects , physical sensibility ; and 2 , the faculty of preserving the impressions caused by these objects ...
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... existence , whereas few languages could be recognized as the same after the lapse of but a thousand years . The language of Alfred is so different from the English of the present day that we have to study it in the same manner as we ...
... existence , whereas few languages could be recognized as the same after the lapse of but a thousand years . The language of Alfred is so different from the English of the present day that we have to study it in the same manner as we ...
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... existence , and dwin- dle down to grammatical terminations . I am afraid I should tax your patience too much were I to enter here on an analysis of the grammatical terminations in Sanskrit , Greek , or Latin , in order to show how these ...
... existence , and dwin- dle down to grammatical terminations . I am afraid I should tax your patience too much were I to enter here on an analysis of the grammatical terminations in Sanskrit , Greek , or Latin , in order to show how these ...
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... existence . Language exists in man , it lives in being spoken , it dies with each word that is pronounced , and is no longer heard . It is a mere accident that language should ever have been reduced to writing , and have been made the ...
... existence . Language exists in man , it lives in being spoken , it dies with each word that is pronounced , and is no longer heard . It is a mere accident that language should ever have been reduced to writing , and have been made the ...
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