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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... common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in ...
... common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in ...
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... common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or two passive powers , the existence of which is ...
... common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no 1 " Man has two faculties , or two passive powers , the existence of which is ...
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... common consent , distin- guishes man from all other living beings ; if it es- tablishes a frontier between man and the brute , which can never be removed , it would seem to possess at the present moment peculiar claims on the attention ...
... common consent , distin- guishes man from all other living beings ; if it es- tablishes a frontier between man and the brute , which can never be removed , it would seem to possess at the present moment peculiar claims on the attention ...
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... common to many and offers those essential points on which groups or nat- ural classes may be established . These classes again , in their more general features , are mutually com- pared ; new points of difference , or of similarity of a ...
... common to many and offers those essential points on which groups or nat- ural classes may be established . These classes again , in their more general features , are mutually com- pared ; new points of difference , or of similarity of a ...
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... common with philology in the usual meaning of the word . Philology , whether classical or oriental , whether treat- ing of ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated ...
... common with philology in the usual meaning of the word . Philology , whether classical or oriental , whether treat- ing of ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated ...
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