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My object , however , will have been attained , if I should succeed in attracting the
attention , not only of the scholar , but of the philosopher , the historian , and the
theologian , to a science which concerns them all , and which , though it ...
My object , however , will have been attained , if I should succeed in attracting the
attention , not only of the scholar , but of the philosopher , the historian , and the
theologian , to a science which concerns them all , and which , though it ...
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Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it in
England , France , and Germany are so vague and varying that they have led to
the most confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this ...
Its very name is still unsettled , and the various titles that have been given to it in
England , France , and Germany are so vague and varying that they have led to
the most confused ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this ...
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Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or
two passive powers , the existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the
faculty of receiving the different impressions caused by external objects , physical
...
Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or
two passive powers , the existence of which is generally acknowledged ; 1 , the
faculty of receiving the different impressions caused by external objects , physical
...
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The object of classification is clear . We understand Classification . things if we
can comprehend them ; that is to say , if we can grasp and hold together single
facts , connect isolated impressions , distinguish between what is essential and ...
The object of classification is clear . We understand Classification . things if we
can comprehend them ; that is to say , if we can grasp and hold together single
facts , connect isolated impressions , distinguish between what is essential and ...
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In the science of language , languages are not treated as a means ; language
itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never
produced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the
Hottentots ...
In the science of language , languages are not treated as a means ; language
itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never
produced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the
Hottentots ...
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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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