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Locke , who is generally classed together with these materialistic philosophers ,
and who certainly vindicated a large share of what had been claimed for the
intellect as the property of the senses , recognized most fully the barrier which ...
Locke , who is generally classed together with these materialistic philosophers ,
and who certainly vindicated a large share of what had been claimed for the
intellect as the property of the senses , recognized most fully the barrier which ...
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In that sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame
of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to
acquire a practical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does
not ...
In that sense I know indeed very few languages , and I never aspired to the fame
of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to
acquire a practical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does
not ...
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... that no new root or radical has ever been invented by later generations , as
little as one single element has ever been added to the material world in which
we live ; if you bear in mind that in one sense , and in a very just sense , we may
be ...
... that no new root or radical has ever been invented by later generations , as
little as one single element has ever been added to the material world in which
we live ; if you bear in mind that in one sense , and in a very just sense , we may
be ...
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Now it is perfectly true that if language be the work of man , in the same sense in
which a statue , or a temple , or a poem , or a law are properly called the works of
man , the science of language would have to be classed as an historical ...
Now it is perfectly true that if language be the work of man , in the same sense in
which a statue , or a temple , or a poem , or a law are properly called the works of
man , the science of language would have to be classed as an historical ...
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... could have been carried on . But as it is the object of these lectures to prove
that language is not a work of human art , in the same sense 1 D. Stewart , Works
, vol . iii . p . 27 . as painting , or building , or writing , or LANGUAGE REVEALED .
... could have been carried on . But as it is the object of these lectures to prove
that language is not a work of human art , in the same sense 1 D. Stewart , Works
, vol . iii . p . 27 . as painting , or building , or writing , or LANGUAGE REVEALED .
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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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