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And when the whole kingdom of plants has thus been surveyed ... of nature ;
when we can lift it up , as it were , and view it in our mind as a whole , as a system
well defined and complete , we then speak of the science of plants , or botany .
And when the whole kingdom of plants has thus been surveyed ... of nature ;
when we can lift it up , as it were , and view it in our mind as a whole , as a system
well defined and complete , we then speak of the science of plants , or botany .
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It is true , no doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful
structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and critically in a
number of literary works representing the various periods of its growth .
Nevertheless ...
It is true , no doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful
structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and critically in a
number of literary works representing the various periods of its growth .
Nevertheless ...
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Though much of what we might call the realm of language is lost to us forever ,
though whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from
our observation , yet the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether in
the ...
Though much of what we might call the realm of language is lost to us forever ,
though whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from
our observation , yet the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether in
the ...
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... life from the first utterances of the human mind , — language , the living and
speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by
the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned
and ...
... life from the first utterances of the human mind , — language , the living and
speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by
the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned
and ...
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... the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , together likewise with the ancient
dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the
mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how
Hebrew ...
... the Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , together likewise with the ancient
dialects of India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the
mother of the whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how
Hebrew ...
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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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