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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... never regained their former depth and harmony . The invention of printing gave the death - blow to the art of ornamental writing and of miniature - painting employed in the illu- mination of manuscripts ; and the best artists of the ...
... never regained their former depth and harmony . The invention of printing gave the death - blow to the art of ornamental writing and of miniature - painting employed in the illu- mination of manuscripts ; and the best artists of the ...
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... never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a name of the dawn before she became a god- dess , the wife of Tithonos , or the dying day . Fatum , or fate , meant originally what had been spoken ; and before Fate became a ...
... never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a name of the dawn before she became a god- dess , the wife of Tithonos , or the dying day . Fatum , or fate , meant originally what had been spoken ; and before Fate became a ...
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... Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in which , among the profiles of the different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the ...
... Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in which , among the profiles of the different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the ...
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... never lose its power on the mind , and on the heart of man . Now , however much the frontiers of the animal kingdom have been pushed for- ward , so that at one time the line of demarcation be- tween animal and man seemed to depend on a ...
... never lose its power on the mind , and on the heart of man . Now , however much the frontiers of the animal kingdom have been pushed for- ward , so that at one time the line of demarcation be- tween animal and man seemed to depend on a ...
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... 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 progress of comparative physiology , yet consider it their duty to enter their ...
... 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 progress of comparative physiology , yet consider it their duty to enter their ...
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