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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... observation and classification , but were borrowed from the language of those who themselves were wan- derers on the sea or in the desert , and to whom the fixed stars were in full reality what their name implies , stars driven in and ...
... observation and classification , but were borrowed from the language of those who themselves were wan- derers on the sea or in the desert , and to whom the fixed stars were in full reality what their name implies , stars driven in and ...
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... observe by the way that the hieroglyphic signs of our modern prescriptions have been traced back by Champollion to the real hieroglyphics of Egypt 1 ) -and as long as it insti- gated the avarice of its patrons by the promise of the ...
... observe by the way that the hieroglyphic signs of our modern prescriptions have been traced back by Champollion to the real hieroglyphics of Egypt 1 ) -and as long as it insti- gated the avarice of its patrons by the promise of the ...
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... observing , and analyzing , have brought to its solution qualifications unrivalled in any previous age ; and if we may judge from the greater warmth displayed in discussions ordinarily conducted with the calmness of judges and not with ...
... observing , and analyzing , have brought to its solution qualifications unrivalled in any previous age ; and if we may judge from the greater warmth displayed in discussions ordinarily conducted with the calmness of judges and not with ...
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... observe no footsteps in these of making use of general signs for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting or making general ideas , since they have no use of words or any other ...
... observe no footsteps in these of making use of general signs for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting or making general ideas , since they have no use of words or any other ...
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... observation , we try to discover what is common to many and offers those essential points on which groups or nat- ural classes may be established . These classes again , in their more general features , are mutually com- pared ; new ...
... observation , we try to discover what is common to many and offers those essential points on which groups or nat- ural classes may be established . These classes again , in their more general features , are mutually com- pared ; new ...
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adjective agglutinative ancient Anglo-Saxon Arabic Armenia Arya Aryan Aryan family Aryan languages Asia beginning Brahmans branch brutes Burnouf called Celtic Celts century Chinese common origin dative declension derived dialects discovered distinct distinguished doubt elements empire English Europe existence express family of speech Finnic formal French genitive German Gothic grammarians grammatical forms Greek and Latin growth guage Hebrew Hervas High-German human speech idea India inflectional instance Italian Latin Lectures Leibniz likewise literary literature look means modern Mongolic nature never nouns origin of language Persian philology philosophers phonetic corruption physical sciences plough plural preserved primitive pronouns Provençal race Roman Rome Sanskrit Saxon scholars science of language sense skrit Slavonic speak spoken stage Stanislas Julien Strabo supposed Tataric terminations Teutonic thou tion translated tribes Tungusic Turanian Turanian family Turanian languages Turkic Turkish Ulfilas Veda verb vowels words Zend Zend-avesta Zoroaster