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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... though it professes to treat of words only , teaches us that there is more in words than is dreamt of in our philosophy . I quote from Bacon : " Men believe that their reason is lord over their words , but it happens , too , that words.
... though it professes to treat of words only , teaches us that there is more in words than is dreamt of in our philosophy . I quote from Bacon : " Men believe that their reason is lord over their words , but it happens , too , that words.
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... of man than with his reason . In spite of the strong con- demnation which Luther pronounced against astrology , 99 1 Bunsen's Egypt , vol . iv . p . 108 . astrology continued to sway the destinies of Europe ; and EMPIRICAL STAGE . 19.
... of man than with his reason . In spite of the strong con- demnation which Luther pronounced against astrology , 99 1 Bunsen's Egypt , vol . iv . p . 108 . astrology continued to sway the destinies of Europe ; and EMPIRICAL STAGE . 19.
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... reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting or making general ideas , since they have no use of words or any other general signs . " If , therefore , the science of language gives us an insight into that which , by ...
... reason to imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting or making general ideas , since they have no use of words or any other general signs . " If , therefore , the science of language gives us an insight into that which , by ...
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... reason to believe that the same changes take place with even greater violence and rapidity in the dialects of savage tribes , although , in the absence of a written literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy ...
... reason to believe that the same changes take place with even greater violence and rapidity in the dialects of savage tribes , although , in the absence of a written literature , it is extremely difficult to obtain trustworthy ...
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... reason to doubt the statement of Strabo , 2 who speaks of seventy tribes liv- ing together in that country , which , even now , is called " the mountain of languages . " In modern times , again , when missionaries have devoted ...
... reason to doubt the statement of Strabo , 2 who speaks of seventy tribes liv- ing together in that country , which , even now , is called " the mountain of languages . " In modern times , again , when missionaries have devoted ...
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adjective agglutinative ancient Anglo-Saxon Arabic Armenia Arya Aryan Aryan family Aryan languages Asia beginning Brahmans branch brutes Burnouf called Celtic Celts century Chinese common origin dative declension derived dialects discovered distinct distinguished doubt elements empire English Europe existence express family of speech Finnic formal French genitive German Gothic grammarians grammatical forms Greek and Latin growth guage Hebrew Hervas High-German human speech idea India inflectional instance Italian Latin Lectures Leibniz likewise literary literature look means modern Mongolic nature never nouns origin of language Persian philology philosophers phonetic corruption physical sciences plough plural preserved primitive pronouns Provençal race Roman Rome Sanskrit Saxon scholars science of language sense skrit Slavonic speak spoken stage Stanislas Julien Strabo supposed Tataric terminations Teutonic thou tion translated tribes Tungusic Turanian Turanian family Turanian languages Turkic Turkish Ulfilas Veda verb vowels words Zend Zend-avesta Zoroaster