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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... Rome , for so many cen- turies the queen of the whole civilized world , was de- posed by the modern Romance dialects , and the ancient Greek was supplanted in the end by the modern Ro- maic . And though the art of printing and the wide ...
... Rome , for so many cen- turies the queen of the whole civilized world , was de- posed by the modern Romance dialects , and the ancient Greek was supplanted in the end by the modern Ro- maic . And though the art of printing and the wide ...
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... Rome ; and my word , I trust , will be as good as the word of any monk . " No doubt the laughers were with the emperor ; but for all that , schisma remained a neuter , and not even an emperor could change its gender or termination . The ...
... Rome ; and my word , I trust , will be as good as the word of any monk . " No doubt the laughers were with the emperor ; but for all that , schisma remained a neuter , and not even an emperor could change its gender or termination . The ...
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... Rome , we can speak of a history of art . We can connect two periods separated by thousands of years through the works of those who handed on the tradi- tions of art from century to century ; but we shall never meet with that continuous ...
... Rome , we can speak of a history of art . We can connect two periods separated by thousands of years through the works of those who handed on the tradi- tions of art from century to century ; but we shall never meet with that continuous ...
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... Rome , and 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 ...
... Rome , and 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 ...
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... Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was fixed by Livius Andronicus , Ennius , Nævius , Cato , and Lucretius , polished by the Scipios , Horten- sius , and Cicero . It was the language of a restricted class , of a political ...
... Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was fixed by Livius Andronicus , Ennius , Nævius , Cato , and Lucretius , polished by the Scipios , Horten- sius , and Cicero . It was the language of a restricted class , of a political ...
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