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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... PHYSICAL SCIENCES 11 LECTURE II . THE GROWTH OF LANGUAGE IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE .. 38 LECTURE III . THE EMPIRICAL STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE ·· 87 LECTURE IV . THE CLASSIFICATORY STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF ...
... PHYSICAL SCIENCES 11 LECTURE II . THE GROWTH OF LANGUAGE IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE .. 38 LECTURE III . THE EMPIRICAL STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE ·· 87 LECTURE IV . THE CLASSIFICATORY STAGE IN THE SCIENCE OF ...
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... PHYSICAL SCIENCES . WHEN I was asked some time ago to deliver a course of lectures on Comparative Philology in this Institution , I at once expressed my readiness to do so . I had lived long enough in England to know that the peculiar ...
... PHYSICAL SCIENCES . WHEN I was asked some time ago to deliver a course of lectures on Comparative Philology in this Institution , I at once expressed my readiness to do so . I had lived long enough in England to know that the peculiar ...
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... physical and mental sciences . It has absorbed the thoughts of men who , after a long life spent in collecting , observing , and analyzing , have brought to its solution qualifications unrivalled in any previous age ; and if we may ...
... physical and mental sciences . It has absorbed the thoughts of men who , after a long life spent in collecting , observing , and analyzing , have brought to its solution qualifications unrivalled in any previous age ; and if we may ...
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... physical sciences . We had examined the empirical stage through which every science has to pass . We saw that , for instance , in botany , a man who has travelled through distant countries , who has collected a vast 24 CLASSIFICATORY STAGE ...
... physical sciences . We had examined the empirical stage through which every science has to pass . We saw that , for instance , in botany , a man who has travelled through distant countries , who has collected a vast 24 CLASSIFICATORY STAGE ...
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... as they had been found to be by the ob- server and collector . Physical science , however , would never have been what it is without the impulses which = it received from the philosopher , nay even from 28 THEORETICAL STAGE .
... as they had been found to be by the ob- server and collector . Physical science , however , would never have been what it is without the impulses which = it received from the philosopher , nay even from 28 THEORETICAL STAGE .
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