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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... words only , teaches us that there is more in words than is dreamt of in our philosophy . I quote from Bacon : " Men believe that their reason is lord over their words , but it happens , too , that words.
... words only , teaches us that there is more in words than is dreamt of in our philosophy . I quote from Bacon : " Men believe that their reason is lord over their words , but it happens , too , that words.
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Friedrich Max Müller. words , but it happens , too , that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect . Words , as a Tartar's bow , shoot back upon the under- standing of the wisest , and mightily entangle and ...
Friedrich Max Müller. words , but it happens , too , that words exercise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect . Words , as a Tartar's bow , shoot back upon the under- standing of the wisest , and mightily entangle and ...
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... words , on nouns and verbs and particles , - if I venture to address an audience accustomed to listen , in this place , to the wonderful tales of the natural histo- rian , the chemist , and geologist , and wont to see the novel results ...
... words , on nouns and verbs and particles , - if I venture to address an audience accustomed to listen , in this place , to the wonderful tales of the natural histo- rian , the chemist , and geologist , and wont to see the novel results ...
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... words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities of the outer world on the other . Men were called heretics for believing that words such as justice or truth expressed only concep- tions of our mind , not real things walking ...
... words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities of the outer world on the other . Men were called heretics for believing that words such as justice or truth expressed only concep- tions of our mind , not real things walking ...
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... words of Humboldt ) , " as from a lofty island - shore , the eye loves to glance towards distant regions . The images which it sees may be illusive ; but , like the illusive images which people imagined they had seen from the Canaries ...
... words of Humboldt ) , " as from a lofty island - shore , the eye loves to glance towards distant regions . The images which it sees may be illusive ; but , like the illusive images which people imagined they had seen from the Canaries ...
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