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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Page 56
... primitive viginti which we find in Latin , so this Latin viginti , together with the Greek eikati , and the Sanskrit vin'sati presup- pose an earlier language from which they are in turn derived , and in which , previous to viginti , 56 ...
... primitive viginti which we find in Latin , so this Latin viginti , together with the Greek eikati , and the Sanskrit vin'sati presup- pose an earlier language from which they are in turn derived , and in which , previous to viginti , 56 ...
Page 57
... primitive form dvi - ginti , and previous to this again , another compound as clear and intelli- gible as the Chinese eúl - shi , consisting of the ancient Aryan names for two , dvi , and ten , da'sati . Such is the virulence of this ...
... primitive form dvi - ginti , and previous to this again , another compound as clear and intelli- gible as the Chinese eúl - shi , consisting of the ancient Aryan names for two , dvi , and ten , da'sati . Such is the virulence of this ...
Page 60
... primitive than the language of Shakespeare , and the richness of their vocabulary surpasses , on many points , that of the classical writers of any period . Dialects have always been the feeders rather than the channels of a literary ...
... primitive than the language of Shakespeare , and the richness of their vocabulary surpasses , on many points , that of the classical writers of any period . Dialects have always been the feeders rather than the channels of a literary ...
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... primitive stages of Sanskrit and Greek ; and we perceive how accu- rately the real power of the genitive was determined by the ancient Greek grammarians , who called it the general or predicative case , whereas the Romans spoiled the ...
... primitive stages of Sanskrit and Greek ; and we perceive how accu- rately the real power of the genitive was determined by the ancient Greek grammarians , who called it the general or predicative case , whereas the Romans spoiled the ...
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... primitive language of mankind , and that , therefore , all languages must be derived from Hebrew . The fathers of the Church never expressed any doubt on this point . St. Jerome , in one of his epistles to Dama- sus , writes : " the ...
... primitive language of mankind , and that , therefore , all languages must be derived from Hebrew . The fathers of the Church never expressed any doubt on this point . St. Jerome , in one of his epistles to Dama- sus , writes : " the ...
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