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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... speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in Eng- land , France , and Germany , deserved a larger share of public sympathy than they had hitherto received ; and it seemed to me , as far as I could judge , that the ...
... speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in Eng- land , France , and Germany , deserved a larger share of public sympathy than they had hitherto received ; and it seemed to me , as far as I could judge , that the ...
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... speech . But the title of Mythology is already occu- pied , and Logology would jar too much on classical ears . We need not waste our time in criticising these names , as none of them has as yet received that uni- versal sanction which ...
... speech . But the title of Mythology is already occu- pied , and Logology would jar too much on classical ears . We need not waste our time in criticising these names , as none of them has as yet received that uni- versal sanction which ...
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... speech , with the very ancestors of our race , and still draws its life from the first utterances of the human mind , —language , the living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the ...
... speech , with the very ancestors of our race , and still draws its life from the first utterances of the human mind , —language , the living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the ...
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... speech arose from different nations agreeing on different sounds as the most appropriate signs of their different ideas . This view of the origin of language was so power- fully advocated by the leading philosophers of the last century ...
... speech arose from different nations agreeing on different sounds as the most appropriate signs of their different ideas . This view of the origin of language was so power- fully advocated by the leading philosophers of the last century ...
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... speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the original lan- guage of the Semitic ...
... speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impres- sions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the original lan- guage of the Semitic ...
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