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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... 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 . Everything is reducible to feel- ing . " - Helvetius ...
... 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 . Everything is reducible to feel- ing . " - Helvetius ...
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... preserved in our libraries and museums , — lan- guage , which in itself carries us back far beyond the cuneiform literature of Assyria and Babylonia , and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects our- selves , through an ...
... preserved in our libraries and museums , — lan- guage , which in itself carries us back far beyond the cuneiform literature of Assyria and Babylonia , and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects our- selves , through an ...
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... preserved as a merely formal ele- ment , as the termination of adverbs , even in cases where a recollection of the original meaning of mente ( with a mind ) , would have rendered its employment perfectly impossible . If we say in French ...
... preserved as a merely formal ele- ment , as the termination of adverbs , even in cases where a recollection of the original meaning of mente ( with a mind ) , would have rendered its employment perfectly impossible . If we say in French ...
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... preserve among themselves their own familiar forms and expressions . They would add new words , some so fanciful and quaint as to be hardly intelligible to other members of the same clan . Such expressions would naturally be suppressed ...
... preserve among themselves their own familiar forms and expressions . They would add new words , some so fanciful and quaint as to be hardly intelligible to other members of the same clan . Such expressions would naturally be suppressed ...
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... preserved the Latin forms in nous sommes , vous êtes , ils sont . But in Spanish we find somos , sois , son ; and this sois stands for sutis . We find similar traces of grammatical levelling in the Italian siamo , siete , sono , formed ...
... preserved the Latin forms in nous sommes , vous êtes , ils sont . But in Spanish we find somos , sois , son ; and this sois stands for sutis . We find similar traces of grammatical levelling in the Italian siamo , siete , sono , formed ...
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