Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861Scribner, Armstrong, 1874 - 4 pages |
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... Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , which were gradually allowed to assume a divine per- sonality never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a name of the dawn before she became a god- dess ...
... Indian , and other heathen gods are nothing but poetical names , which were gradually allowed to assume a divine per- sonality never contemplated by their original inventors . Eos was a name of the dawn before she became a god- dess ...
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... 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 , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres ...
... 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 , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres ...
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... India , of Italy , France , and Spain , must be considered as artificial , rather than as natural forms of speech . The real and natural life of language is in its dialects , and in spite of the tyranny exercised by the classical or ...
... India , of Italy , France , and Spain , must be considered as artificial , rather than as natural forms of speech . The real and natural life of language is in its dialects , and in spite of the tyranny exercised by the classical or ...
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... India , springing from the same stem from which Sanskrit sprang , when it first assumed its literary independence . While thus endeavoring to place the character of dialects , as the feeders of language , in a clear light , I may appear ...
... India , springing from the same stem from which Sanskrit sprang , when it first assumed its literary independence . While thus endeavoring to place the character of dialects , as the feeders of language , in a clear light , I may appear ...
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... India and Greece - rushes at once into theories about the mys- terious nature of speech , and cares as little for facts as the man who wrote an account of the camel with- out ever having seen the animal or the desert . The Brahmans , in ...
... India and Greece - rushes at once into theories about the mys- terious nature of speech , and cares as little for facts as the man who wrote an account of the camel with- out ever having seen the animal or the desert . The Brahmans , in ...
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