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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... speak somewhat feelingly on the necessity that every science should answer some practical purpose , because I am aware that the science of language has but little to offer to the utilitarian spirit of our age . It does not profess to ...
... speak somewhat feelingly on the necessity that every science should answer some practical purpose , because I am aware that the science of language has but little to offer to the utilitarian spirit of our age . It does not profess to ...
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... speak of the science of plants , or botany . We have entered into altogether a new sphere of knowledge where the individual is subject to the general , fact to law ; we discover thought , order , and purpose per- vading the whole realm ...
... speak of the science of plants , or botany . We have entered into altogether a new sphere of knowledge where the individual is subject to the general , fact to law ; we discover thought , order , and purpose per- vading the whole realm ...
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... speaking of Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as by later astronomers , Sir David Brewster remarks very truly , " that , as an instrument of research ...
... speaking of Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as by later astronomers , Sir David Brewster remarks very truly , " that , as an instrument of research ...
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... speak to you in the course of these lectures of hundreds of languages , some of which , perhaps , you may never have heard mentioned even by name . Do not suppose that I know these languages as you know COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY . 33.
... speak to you in the course of these lectures of hundreds of languages , some of which , perhaps , you may never have heard mentioned even by name . Do not suppose that I know these languages as you know COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY . 33.
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... speak the Kachikal lan- guage , of which a professorship was lately founded in the University of Guatemala , 1 or to acquire the elegan- cies of the idiom of the Tcheremissians ; nor is it his ambition to explore the literature of the ...
... speak the Kachikal lan- guage , of which a professorship was lately founded in the University of Guatemala , 1 or to acquire the elegan- cies of the idiom of the Tcheremissians ; nor is it his ambition to explore the literature of the ...
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