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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... of the different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the negro . Lastly , the problem of the position of man on the threshold between the worlds of matter and spirit has of 22 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
... of the different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the negro . Lastly , the problem of the position of man on the threshold between the worlds of matter and spirit has of 22 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
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... looks for truth , as the lamp of study . Kepler held both , and more than that , he had the star of faith to guide him in all things from darkness to light . In the history of the physical sciences , the three stages which we have just ...
... looks for truth , as the lamp of study . Kepler held both , and more than that , he had the star of faith to guide him in all things from darkness to light . In the history of the physical sciences , the three stages which we have just ...
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... sciences , however , we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology , and 1 Die Pflanze und ihr Leben , von M. T. Schleiden . Leipzig , 1858 . This involves the recay . of Language . v . COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY . 31.
... sciences , however , we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology , and 1 Die Pflanze und ihr Leben , von M. T. Schleiden . Leipzig , 1858 . This involves the recay . of Language . v . COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY . 31.
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... looks and gestures proved inefficient ; and it was gradually , by the combined efforts of succeeding generations , brought to that per- fection which we admire in the idiom of the Bible , the Vedas , the Koran , and in the poetry of ...
... looks and gestures proved inefficient ; and it was gradually , by the combined efforts of succeeding generations , brought to that per- fection which we admire in the idiom of the Bible , the Vedas , the Koran , and in the poetry of ...
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... look to languages with which we are more familiar . Let us take the French adverb . We are told by French gram- marians 1 that in order to form adverbs we have to add the termination ment . Thus from bon , good , we form bonnement ...
... look to languages with which we are more familiar . Let us take the French adverb . We are told by French gram- marians 1 that in order to form adverbs we have to add the termination ment . Thus from bon , good , we form bonnement ...
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