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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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It was not the true , the good , and the beautiful which spurred the early
philosophers to deep researches and bold discoveries . The foundationstone of
the most glorious structures of human ingenuity in ages to come was supplied by
the ...
It was not the true , the good , and the beautiful which spurred the early
philosophers to deep researches and bold discoveries . The foundationstone of
the most glorious structures of human ingenuity in ages to come was supplied by
the ...
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of Astronomy were not the poet or the philosopher , but the sailor and the farmer .
The early poet may have admired “ the mazy dance of planets , ” and the
philosopher may have speculated on the heavenly harmonies ; but it was to the
sailor ...
of Astronomy were not the poet or the philosopher , but the sailor and the farmer .
The early poet may have admired “ the mazy dance of planets , ” and the
philosopher may have speculated on the heavenly harmonies ; but it was to the
sailor ...
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... so that at one time the line of demarcation between animal and man seemed to
depend on a mere fold in the brain , there is one barrier which no one has yet
ventured to touch — the barrier of language . Even those philosophers with
whom ...
... so that at one time the line of demarcation between animal and man seemed to
depend on a mere fold in the brain , there is one barrier which no one has yet
ventured to touch — the barrier of language . Even those philosophers with
whom ...
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Locke , who is generally classed together with these materialistic philosophers ,
and who certainly vindicated a large share of what had been claimed for the
intellect as the property of the senses , recognized most fully the barrier which ...
Locke , who is generally classed together with these materialistic philosophers ,
and who certainly vindicated a large share of what had been claimed for the
intellect as the property of the senses , recognized most fully the barrier which ...
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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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