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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... less skilful expositor . I felt convinced that the researches into the history of languages and into the nature of human speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in Eng- land , France , and Germany , deserved a larger ...
... less skilful expositor . I felt convinced that the researches into the history of languages and into the nature of human speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in Eng- land , France , and Germany , deserved a larger ...
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... less virulent in modern languages , is by no means extinct . ? During the Middle Ages the controversy between Nominalism and Realism , which agitated the church for centuries , and finally prepared the way for the Reformation , was ...
... less virulent in modern languages , is by no means extinct . ? During the Middle Ages the controversy between Nominalism and Realism , which agitated the church for centuries , and finally prepared the way for the Reformation , was ...
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... less comprehensive . Though much of what we might call the realm of language is lost to us forever , though whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from our observation , yet the mass of human speech that ...
... less comprehensive . Though much of what we might call the realm of language is lost to us forever , though whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from our observation , yet the mass of human speech that ...
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... less urgent necessity because things could be pointed at or imitated , whereas mere actions , such as are expressed by verbs , could not . He there- fore supposes that when people saw a wolf coming , they pointed at him , and simply ...
... less urgent necessity because things could be pointed at or imitated , whereas mere actions , such as are expressed by verbs , could not . He there- fore supposes that when people saw a wolf coming , they pointed at him , and simply ...
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... less rapid , but they take place at all times and in all countries . They have reduced the rich and powerful idiom of the poets of the Veda to the meagre and impure jargon of the modern Sepoy . They have transformed the language of the ...
... less rapid , but they take place at all times and in all countries . They have reduced the rich and powerful idiom of the poets of the Veda to the meagre and impure jargon of the modern Sepoy . They have transformed the language of the ...
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