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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... sound , every one of our sciences , however grand their present titles , can be traced back to the most humble and homely occupations of half - savage Herbert Spencer . tribes . It was not the true , the good , and the beau- tiful which ...
... sound , every one of our sciences , however grand their present titles , can be traced back to the most humble and homely occupations of half - savage Herbert Spencer . tribes . It was not the true , the good , and the beau- tiful which ...
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... sound and sober a scholar L. as Melancthon , and even Bacon allows it a place among Reg : Bacon . the sciences , though admitting that " it had better in- telligence and confederacy with the imagination of man than with his reason . In ...
... sound and sober a scholar L. as Melancthon , and even Bacon allows it a place among Reg : Bacon . the sciences , though admitting that " it had better in- telligence and confederacy with the imagination of man than with his reason . In ...
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... sound views which we should be able to obtain respecting the nature of truth in the physical sciences , and the mode of discovering it , must also tend to throw light upon the nature and prospects of knowledge of all other kinds ...
... sound views which we should be able to obtain respecting the nature of truth in the physical sciences , and the mode of discovering it , must also tend to throw light upon the nature and prospects of knowledge of all other kinds ...
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... sounds as the most appropriate signs of their different ideas . This view of the origin of language was so power- fully advocated by the leading philosophers of the last century , that it has retained an undisputed currency even among ...
... sounds as the most appropriate signs of their different ideas . This view of the origin of language was so power- fully advocated by the leading philosophers of the last century , that it has retained an undisputed currency even among ...
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... sound , but in character- between two such words as the Chinese eúl - shi , two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of words which we meet with in Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . In Chinese there is neither too much , nor too ...
... sound , but in character- between two such words as the Chinese eúl - shi , two - ten , or twenty , and those mere cripples of words which we meet with in Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin . In Chinese there is neither too much , nor too ...
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