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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology , Phonology , and Glos- sology . In France it has received the convenient , INTRODUCTION . 13.
... ideas among the public at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology , Phonology , and Glos- sology . In France it has received the convenient , INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... objects , physical sensibility ; and 2 , the faculty of preserving the impressions caused by these objects , called memory , or weakened sensation . These faculties , the productive causes of thought , we have in common with beasts ...
... objects , physical sensibility ; and 2 , the faculty of preserving the impressions caused by these objects , called memory , or weakened sensation . These faculties , the productive causes of thought , we have in common with beasts ...
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... 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 essen ...
... 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 essen ...
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... object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as important , nay , for the ...
... object of scientific inquiry . Dialects which have never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as important , nay , for the ...
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