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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... at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology , Phonology , and Glos- sology . In France it has received the convenient , INTRODUCTION . 13.
... at large as to the real objects of this new science . We hear it spoken of as Comparative Philology , Scientific Etymology , Phonology , and Glos- sology . In France it has received the convenient , INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... spoken ; and before Fate became a power , even greater than Ju- piter , it meant that which had once been spoken by Jupiter , and could never be changed , — not even by Jupiter himself . Zeus originally meant the bright heaven , in ...
... spoken ; and before Fate became a power , even greater than Ju- piter , it meant that which had once been spoken by Jupiter , and could never be changed , — not even by Jupiter himself . Zeus originally meant the bright heaven , in ...
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... Now , if we consider the large number of tongues spoken in different parts of 1 History of Inductive Sciences , vol . iii . p . 531 . the world with all their dialectic and provincial va- rieties 42 HISTORY OF LANGUAGE .
... Now , if we consider the large number of tongues spoken in different parts of 1 History of Inductive Sciences , vol . iii . p . 531 . the world with all their dialectic and provincial va- rieties 42 HISTORY OF LANGUAGE .
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... spoken language of England . In Booker's Scripture and Prayer - book Glossary1 the number of words or senses of words which have become obsolete since 1611 , amount to 388 , or nearly one fifteenth part of the whole number of words used ...
... spoken language of England . In Booker's Scripture and Prayer - book Glossary1 the number of words or senses of words which have become obsolete since 1611 , amount to 388 , or nearly one fifteenth part of the whole number of words used ...
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... spoken , it dies with each word that is pronounced , and is no longer heard . It is a mere accident that language should ever have been reduced to writing , and have been made the vehicle of a written literature . Even now the largest ...
... spoken , it dies with each word that is pronounced , and is no longer heard . It is a mere accident that language should ever have been reduced to writing , and have been made the vehicle of a written literature . Even now the largest ...
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