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... who enliven their discussions by experiments and diagrams . If , with all these
difficulties and drawbacks , I do not shrink from opening to - day this course of
lectures on mere words , on nouns and verbs and particles , if I venture to
address ...
... who enliven their discussions by experiments and diagrams . If , with all these
difficulties and drawbacks , I do not shrink from opening to - day this course of
lectures on mere words , on nouns and verbs and particles , if I venture to
address ...
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It is the grammar and the dictionary which form the subject of his inquiries . These
he consults and subjects to a careful analysis , but he does not encumber his
memory with paradigms of nouns and verbs , or with long lists of words which
have ...
It is the grammar and the dictionary which form the subject of his inquiries . These
he consults and subjects to a careful analysis , but he does not encumber his
memory with paradigms of nouns and verbs , or with long lists of words which
have ...
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Adam Smith would wish us to believe 1 that the first artificial words were verbs . ...
But whether the verb or the noun was the first to be invented is of little importance
; nor is it possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of ...
Adam Smith would wish us to believe 1 that the first artificial words were verbs . ...
But whether the verb or the noun was the first to be invented is of little importance
; nor is it possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of ...
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Handbook , 2 though an old Anglo - Saxon word , has but lately taken the place
of manual , and a number of words such as cab for cabriolet , buss for omnibus ,
and even a verb such as to shunt tremble still on the boundary line between the ...
Handbook , 2 though an old Anglo - Saxon word , has but lately taken the place
of manual , and a number of words such as cab for cabriolet , buss for omnibus ,
and even a verb such as to shunt tremble still on the boundary line between the ...
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Many people speak , for instance , of the terminations of the verb , as if they
sprouted out from the root as from their parent stock . But what ideas can they
connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there
is one ...
Many people speak , for instance , of the terminations of the verb , as if they
sprouted out from the root as from their parent stock . But what ideas can they
connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there
is one ...
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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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