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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... present titles , can be traced back to the most humble and homely occupations of half - savage tribes . It was not the true , the good , and the beau- tiful which spurred the early philosophers to deep researches and bold discoveries ...
... present titles , can be traced back to the most humble and homely occupations of half - savage tribes . It was not the true , the good , and the beau- tiful which spurred the early philosophers to deep researches and bold discoveries ...
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... present high state of our society students were enabled to devote their time to the investigation of the facts and laws of nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the ...
... present high state of our society students were enabled to devote their time to the investigation of the facts and laws of nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the ...
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... present day despair of rivalling the minuteness , soft- ness , and brilliancy combined by the humble manufac- turer of the mediæval missal . I speak somewhat feelingly on the necessity that every science should answer some practical ...
... present day despair of rivalling the minuteness , soft- ness , and brilliancy combined by the humble manufac- turer of the mediæval missal . I speak somewhat feelingly on the necessity that every science should answer some practical ...
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... present moment peculiar claims on the attention . of all who , while watching with sincere admiration the progress of comparative physiology , yet consider it their duty to enter their manly protest against a revival of the shallow ...
... present moment peculiar claims on the attention . of all who , while watching with sincere admiration the progress of comparative physiology , yet consider it their duty to enter their manly protest against a revival of the shallow ...
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... present day that we have to study it in the same manner as we study Greek and Latin . We can read Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and Chaucer ; but , when we come to the English of the thirteenth ...
... present day that we have to study it in the same manner as we study Greek and Latin . We can read Milton and Bacon , Shakespeare and Hooker ; we can make out Wycliffe and Chaucer ; but , when we come to the English of the thirteenth ...
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