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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... belongs to the titles of other modern sciences , such as Geology or Comparative Anatomy ; nor will there be much difficulty in chris- tening our young science after we have once ascer- tained its birth , its parentage , and its ...
... belongs to the titles of other modern sciences , such as Geology or Comparative Anatomy ; nor will there be much difficulty in chris- tening our young science after we have once ascer- tained its birth , its parentage , and its ...
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... belong properly to the science of language . Mythology , which was the bane of the ancient world , is in truth a disease of language . A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an at- tribute , has been allowed to ...
... belong properly to the science of language . Mythology , which was the bane of the ancient world , is in truth a disease of language . A myth means a word , but a word which , from being a name or an at- tribute , has been allowed to ...
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... belongs to a species , each species to a genus ; and that there are laws which underlie the apparent freedom and variety of all created things . These laws indicate to us the presence of a purpose in the mind of the Creator ; and ...
... belongs to a species , each species to a genus ; and that there are laws which underlie the apparent freedom and variety of all created things . These laws indicate to us the presence of a purpose in the mind of the Creator ; and ...
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... however , we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology , and 1 Die Pflanze und ihr Leben , von M. T. Schleiden . Leipzig , 1858 . its very name would seem to show that it belongs COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY . 31.
... however , we look in vain for a place assigned to comparative philology , and 1 Die Pflanze und ihr Leben , von M. T. Schleiden . Leipzig , 1858 . its very name would seem to show that it belongs COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY . 31.
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Friedrich Max Müller. its very name would seem to show that it belongs to quite a different sphere of human knowledge . There are two great divisions of human knowledge , which , according to their subject - matter , are called physical ...
Friedrich Max Müller. its very name would seem to show that it belongs to quite a different sphere of human knowledge . There are two great divisions of human knowledge , which , according to their subject - matter , are called physical ...
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