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the divine origin of language , seem to have been carried away so far as to run
counter to the express statements of the Bible . For in the Bible it is not the
Creator who gives names to all things , but Adam . “ Out of the ground , ” we read
, “ the ...
the divine origin of language , seem to have been carried away so far as to run
counter to the express statements of the Bible . For in the Bible it is not the
Creator who gives names to all things , but Adam . “ Out of the ground , ” we read
, “ the ...
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... take it for granted that everything in language had originally a meaning . As
language can have no other object but to express our meaning , it might seem to
follow almost by necessity that language should contain neither more nor less
than ...
... take it for granted that everything in language had originally a meaning . As
language can have no other object but to express our meaning , it might seem to
follow almost by necessity that language should contain neither more nor less
than ...
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express double the quantity of ten , twice ten , or twenty . We should in Chinese
take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shī , twenty . The same
caution which applied to shă , applies again to eúl - shi . As soon as you change
it ...
express double the quantity of ten , twice ten , or twenty . We should in Chinese
take eúl , which is two , put it before shi , and say eúl - shī , twenty . The same
caution which applied to shă , applies again to eúl - shi . As soon as you change
it ...
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... yet the choice of de , instead of any other word , to express the genitive , the
choice of illo , instead of any other pronoun , to express the article , might seem to
prove that man acted as a free agent in the formation of language . But it is not so
.
... yet the choice of de , instead of any other word , to express the genitive , the
choice of illo , instead of any other pronoun , to express the article , might seem to
prove that man acted as a free agent in the formation of language . But it is not so
.
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It takes time before people conceive the idea that it is possible to express oneself
in any but one's own language . The Poles called 7 their neighbors , the Germans
, Niemiec , niemy meaning dumb ; ' just as the Greeks called the Barbarians i ...
It takes time before people conceive the idea that it is possible to express oneself
in any but one's own language . The Poles called 7 their neighbors , the Germans
, Niemiec , niemy meaning dumb ; ' just as the Greeks called the Barbarians i ...
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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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