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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Page 25
... whole kingdom of plants has thus been surveyed , and a simple tissue of names been thrown over the garden 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 ...
... whole kingdom of plants has thus been surveyed , and a simple tissue of names been thrown over the garden 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 ...
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... 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 , short lists of vocables , and imperfect ...
... 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 , short lists of vocables , and imperfect ...
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... whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from our observation , yet the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether in the petrified strata of ancient literature or in the countless variety of living ...
... whole periods in the history of language are by necessity withdrawn from our observation , yet the mass of human speech that lies before us , whether in the petrified strata of ancient literature or in the countless variety of living ...
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... whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within - the last fifty years , by the genius of a 36 ...
... whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within - the last fifty years , by the genius of a 36 ...
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... whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source ...
... whole Indo - European or Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source ...
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adjective agglutinative ancient Anglo-Saxon Arabic Armenia Arya Aryan Aryan family Aryan languages Asia beginning Brahmans branch brutes Burnouf called Celtic Celts century Chinese common origin dative declension derived dialects discovered distinct distinguished doubt elements empire English Europe existence express family of speech Finnic formal French genitive German Gothic grammarians grammatical forms Greek and Latin growth guage Hebrew Hervas High-German human speech idea India inflectional instance Italian Latin Lectures Leibniz likewise literary literature look means modern Mongolic nature never nouns origin of language Persian philology philosophers phonetic corruption physical sciences plough plural preserved primitive pronouns Provençal race Roman Rome Sanskrit Saxon scholars science of language sense skrit Slavonic speak spoken stage Stanislas Julien Strabo supposed Tataric terminations Teutonic thou tion translated tribes Tungusic Turanian Turanian family Turanian languages Turkic Turkish Ulfilas Veda verb vowels words Zend Zend-avesta Zoroaster