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... and the theologian , to a science which concerns them all , and which , 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
...
... and the theologian , to a science which concerns them all , and which , 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
...
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... science by so sound and sober a scholar as Melancthon , and even Bacon
allows it a place among Rep Bacon the sciences , though admitting that " it had
better intelligence and confederacy with the imagination of man than with his
reason .
... science by so sound and sober a scholar as Melancthon , and even Bacon
allows it a place among Rep Bacon the sciences , though admitting that " it had
better intelligence and confederacy with the imagination of man than with his
reason .
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For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general signs
for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the
faculty of abstracting or making general ideas , since they have no use of words ...
For it is evident we observe no footsteps in these of making use of general signs
for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine that they have not the
faculty of abstracting or making general ideas , since they have no use of words ...
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We have 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 information , But ...
We have 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 information , But ...
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This is probably an exaggeration ; but we have no reason to doubt the statement
of Strabo , who speaks of seventy tribes living together in that country , which ,
even now , is called “ the mountain of languages . ” In modern times , again ,
when ...
This is probably an exaggeration ; but we have no reason to doubt the statement
of Strabo , who speaks of seventy tribes living together in that country , which ,
even now , is called “ the mountain of languages . ” In modern times , again ,
when ...
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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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