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... external 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 .
... external 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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... most of his classes and divisions have been preserved , because the
conformation of the reproductive organs of plants happened to run parallel with
other more characteristic marks of true affinity . It is the same in the history of
astronomy .
... most of his classes and divisions have been preserved , because the
conformation of the reproductive organs of plants happened to run parallel with
other more characteristic marks of true affinity . It is the same in the history of
astronomy .
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... and carefully preserved in our libraries and museums , – language , which in
itself carries us back far beyond the cuneiform literature of Assyria and Babylonia
, and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects ourselves , through ...
... and carefully preserved in our libraries and museums , – language , which in
itself carries us back far beyond the cuneiform literature of Assyria and Babylonia
, and the hieroglyphic documents of Egypt ; which connects ourselves , through ...
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Mente , the ablative of mens , was changed into ment , and was preserved as a
merely formal element , as the termination of adverbs , even in cases where a
recollection of the original meaning of mente ( with a mind ) , would have
rendered ...
Mente , the ablative of mens , was changed into ment , and was preserved as a
merely formal element , as the termination of adverbs , even in cases where a
recollection of the original meaning of mente ( with a mind ) , would have
rendered ...
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In one and the same clan different families would 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 .
In one and the same clan different families would 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 .
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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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