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... other living beings ; if it establishes a frontier between man and the brute ,
which can never be removed , it would seem to possess at the present moment
peculiar claims on the attention of all who , while watching with sincere
admiration the ...
... other living beings ; if it establishes a frontier between man and the brute ,
which can never be removed , it would seem to possess at the present moment
peculiar claims on the attention of all who , while watching with sincere
admiration the ...
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In the same manner , if we study living languages , it is not for their own sake that
we acquire grammars and vocabularies . We do so on account of their practical
usefulness . We use them as letters of introduction to the best society or to the ...
In the same manner , if we study living languages , it is not for their own sake that
we acquire grammars and vocabularies . We do so on account of their practical
usefulness . We use them as letters of introduction to the best society or to the ...
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... though whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn
from our observation , yet the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether
in the petrified strata of ancient literature or in the countless variety of living lan?
... though whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn
from our observation , yet the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether
in the petrified strata of ancient literature or in the countless variety of living lan?
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... and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects ourselves , through
an unbroken chain of speech , with the very ancestors of our race , and still draws
its life from the first utterances of the human mind , — language , the living and ...
... and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects ourselves , through
an unbroken chain of speech , with the very ancestors of our race , and still draws
its life from the first utterances of the human mind , — language , the living and ...
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Out of the ground , ” we read , “ the Lord God formed every beast of the field , and
every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call
them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature , that was the name ...
Out of the ground , ” we read , “ the Lord God formed every beast of the field , and
every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call
them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature , that was the name ...
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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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