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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... literature of the leading nations of Europe . In comparative philology the case is totally different . In the science of language , languages are not treated as a means ; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry ...
... literature of the leading nations of Europe . In comparative philology the case is totally different . In the science of language , languages are not treated as a means ; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry ...
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... literature of the Samoyedes , or the New - Zealanders . It is the grammar and the dic- tionary which form the subject of his inquiries . These he consults and subjects to a careful analysis , but he does not encumber his memory with ...
... literature of the Samoyedes , or the New - Zealanders . It is the grammar and the dic- tionary which form the subject of his inquiries . These he consults and subjects to a careful analysis , but he does not encumber his memory with ...
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... literature or in the countless variety of living lan- guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their ...
... literature or in the countless variety of living lan- guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their ...
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... literature of Assyria and Babylonia , and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects our- selves , through an unbroken chain of speech , with the very ancestors of our race , and still draws its life from the first utterances ...
... literature of Assyria and Babylonia , and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects our- selves , through an unbroken chain of speech , with the very ancestors of our race , and still draws its life from the first utterances ...
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... literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy information . But in the few instances where careful observations have been made on this interesting subject , it has been found that among the wild and illiterate tribes of ...
... literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy information . But in the few instances where careful observations have been made on this interesting subject , it has been found that among the wild and illiterate tribes of ...
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