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... marked the return of summer.2 Another constellation , the seven stars in the
head of Taurus , received the name Hyades . of Hyades or Pluvice in Latin ,
because at the time when they rose with the sun they were supposed to
announce rain .
... marked the return of summer.2 Another constellation , the seven stars in the
head of Taurus , received the name Hyades . of Hyades or Pluvice in Latin ,
because at the time when they rose with the sun they were supposed to
announce rain .
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Astrology was not such mere Astrology . i imposition as it is generally supposed
to have been . It is counted as a science by so sound and sober a scholar as
Melancthon , and even Bacon allows it a place among Rep Bacon the sciences ...
Astrology was not such mere Astrology . i imposition as it is generally supposed
to have been . It is counted as a science by so sound and sober a scholar as
Melancthon , and even Bacon allows it a place among Rep Bacon the sciences ...
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We need not dwell on minor differences of opinion as to the exact process by
which this artificial language is supposed to have been formed . Adam Smith
would wish us to believe 1 that the first artificial words were verbs . Nouns , he
thinks ...
We need not dwell on minor differences of opinion as to the exact process by
which this artificial language is supposed to have been formed . Adam Smith
would wish us to believe 1 that the first artificial words were verbs . Nouns , he
thinks ...
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In the eleventh century , the languages of Sweden , Denmark , and Iceland are
supposed 1 to have been identical , nor can we appeal to foreign conquest , or to
the admixture of foreign with native blood , in order to account for the changes ...
In the eleventh century , the languages of Sweden , Denmark , and Iceland are
supposed 1 to have been identical , nor can we appeal to foreign conquest , or to
the admixture of foreign with native blood , in order to account for the changes ...
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The name which the Germans gave to their neighbors , the Celts , Walh in old
High German , vealh in Anglo - Saxon , the modern Welsh , is supposed to be the
same as the Sanskrit • mlechha , and means a person who talks indistinctly .
The name which the Germans gave to their neighbors , the Celts , Walh in old
High German , vealh in Anglo - Saxon , the modern Welsh , is supposed to be the
same as the Sanskrit • mlechha , and means a person who talks indistinctly .
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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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