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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... prove the impossibility of a common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an ...
... prove the impossibility of a common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an ...
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... prove hereafter , is a step in advance . If the mind of man is once impressed with the conviction that there must be order and law every- where , it never rests again until all that seems irregular has been eliminated , until the full ...
... prove hereafter , is a step in advance . If the mind of man is once impressed with the conviction that there must be order and law every- where , it never rests again until all that seems irregular has been eliminated , until the full ...
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... prove that things must be exactly 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 ...
... prove that things must be exactly 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 ...
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... proved of great use to him , yet compara- tive philology has really nothing whatever in common with philology in the usual meaning of the word . Philology , whether classical or oriental , whether treat- ing of ancient or modern , of ...
... proved of great use to him , yet compara- tive philology has really nothing whatever in common with philology in the usual meaning of the word . Philology , whether classical or oriental , whether treat- ing of ancient or modern , of ...
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... proved inefficient ; and it was gradually , by the combined efforts of succeeding generations , brought to that per- fection which we admire in the idiom of the Bible , the Vedas , the Koran , and in the poetry of Homer , Virgil , Dante ...
... proved inefficient ; and it was gradually , by the combined efforts of succeeding generations , brought to that per- fection which we admire in the idiom of the Bible , the Vedas , the Koran , and in the poetry of Homer , Virgil , Dante ...
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