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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... thought it might be trusted even in the hands of a less skilful expositor . I felt convinced that the researches into the history of languages and into the nature of human speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in ...
... thought it might be trusted even in the hands of a less skilful expositor . I felt convinced that the researches into the history of languages and into the nature of human speech which have been carried on for the last fifty years in ...
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... thought . We cannot tell as yet what language is . It may be a production of nature , a work of human art , or a divine gift . But to whatever sphere it be longs , it would seem to stand unsurpassed nay , unequalled in it — by anything ...
... thought . We cannot tell as yet what language is . It may be a production of nature , a work of human art , or a divine gift . But to whatever sphere it be longs , it would seem to stand unsurpassed nay , unequalled in it — by anything ...
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... thought , without any side - glance at the practical result of their labors , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless they were in some way subservient to the practical interests of society . It is ...
... thought , without any side - glance at the practical result of their labors , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless they were in some way subservient to the practical interests of society . It is ...
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... thought of the immediate marketable results of their labors . But there is a general interest which supports and enlivens their researches , and that interest depends on the prac- tical advantages which society at large derives from ...
... thought of the immediate marketable results of their labors . But there is a general interest which supports and enlivens their researches , and that interest depends on the prac- tical advantages which society at large derives from ...
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... thought to feeling , and maintain that we share the faculties which are the productive causes . of thought in common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for ...
... thought to feeling , and maintain that we share the faculties which are the productive causes . of thought in common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for ...
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