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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... problems which I shall have to discuss . Declensions and conjugations - cannot be made amusing , nor can I avail myself of the advantages possessed by most lecturers , who enli- ven their discussions by experiments and diagrams . If ...
... problems which I shall have to discuss . Declensions and conjugations - cannot be made amusing , nor can I avail myself of the advantages possessed by most lecturers , who enli- ven their discussions by experiments and diagrams . If ...
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... problems , however , which , though apparently of an abstruse and merely speculative character , have exercised a powerful influence for good or evil in the history of mankind . Men before now have fought for an idea , and have laid ...
... problems , however , which , though apparently of an abstruse and merely speculative character , have exercised a powerful influence for good or evil in the history of mankind . Men before now have fought for an idea , and have laid ...
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... different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the negro . Lastly , the problem of the position of man on the threshold between the worlds of matter and spirit has of 22 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
... different races of man , the profile of the ape was made to look more human than that of the negro . Lastly , the problem of the position of man on the threshold between the worlds of matter and spirit has of 22 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
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... problems of the 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 ...
... problems of the 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 ...
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... problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . We do not want to know languages , we want to know lan- guage ; what language is , how it can form a vehicle or an organ of thought ; we want to know its ...
... problems , more important , than the poetry of Homer , or the prose of Cicero . We do not want to know languages , we want to know lan- guage ; what language is , how it can form a vehicle or an organ of thought ; we want to know its ...
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