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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... later systems most of his classes and divisions have been pre- served , because the conformation of the reproductive organs of plants happened to run parallel with other more characteristic marks of true affinity . It is the same in the ...
... later systems most of his classes and divisions have been pre- served , because the conformation of the reproductive organs of plants happened to run parallel with other more characteristic marks of true affinity . It is the same in the ...
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... ler , 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 THEORETICAL STAGE . 29.
... ler , 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 THEORETICAL STAGE . 29.
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... later generations , as little as one single element has ever been added to the material world in which we live ; if you bear in mind that in one sense , and in a very just sense , we may be said to handle the very words which issued ...
... later generations , as little as one single element has ever been added to the material world in which we live ; if you bear in mind that in one sense , and in a very just sense , we may be said to handle the very words which issued ...
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... later in history , we meet again with a new body of stationary language , forming or formed , we may be sure that its tributaries were those very rivulets which for a time were almost lost from our sight . Or it may be more accurate to ...
... later in history , we meet again with a new body of stationary language , forming or formed , we may be sure that its tributaries were those very rivulets which for a time were almost lost from our sight . Or it may be more accurate to ...
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... later literature of the Brahmans : it is a branch of the liv- ing speech of India , springing from the same stem from which Sanskrit sprang , when it first assumed its literary independence . While thus endeavoring to place the ...
... later literature of the Brahmans : it is a branch of the liv- ing speech of India , springing from the same stem from which Sanskrit sprang , when it first assumed its literary independence . While thus endeavoring to place the ...
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