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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... possible that without that guess we should never have heard of the Copernican system . Truth is not found by addi- tion and multiplication only . When speaking of Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and ...
... possible that without that guess we should never have heard of the Copernican system . Truth is not found by addi- tion and multiplication only . When speaking of Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and ...
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... possible only after the way has been cleared by previous classification . The philosopher must command his classes like regiments which obey the order of their general . Thus alone can the battle be fought and truth be conquered . After ...
... possible only after the way has been cleared by previous classification . The philosopher must command his classes like regiments which obey the order of their general . Thus alone can the battle be fought and truth be conquered . After ...
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... possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of language , to enter upon a minute examina- tion of a theory which represents language as a work of human art , and as established by mutual agree- ment as a ...
... possible for us , at the very beginning of our inquiry into the nature of language , to enter upon a minute examina- tion of a theory which represents language as a work of human art , and as established by mutual agree- ment as a ...
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... possible that any further changes should take place . Nevertheless , the language of 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 ...
... possible that any further changes should take place . Nevertheless , the language of 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 ...
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... possible to express oneself in any but one's own language . The Poles called their neighbors , the Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; 1 just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish name Niemiec to the ...
... possible to express oneself in any but one's own language . The Poles called their neighbors , the Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; 1 just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish name Niemiec to the ...
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