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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... verbs and particles , if I venture to address an audience accustomed to listen , in this place , to the wonderful tales of the natural histo- rian , the chemist , and geologist , and wont to see the novel results of inductive reasoning ...
... verbs and particles , if I venture to address an audience accustomed to listen , in this place , to the wonderful tales of the natural histo- rian , the chemist , and geologist , and wont to see the novel results of inductive reasoning ...
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... verbs , or with long lists of words which have never been used in any work of literature . It is true , no doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and ...
... verbs , or with long lists of words which have never been used in any work of literature . It is true , no doubt , that no language will unveil the whole of its wonderful structure except to the scholar who has studied it thoroughly and ...
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... verbs were supplied by gesture ; that , therefore , when people saw a wolf coming , they did not cry " He comes , " but " Wolf , Wolf , " leaving the rest to be imagined.1 But whether the verb or the noun was the first to be invented is ...
... verbs were supplied by gesture ; that , therefore , when people saw a wolf coming , they did not cry " He comes , " but " Wolf , Wolf , " leaving the rest to be imagined.1 But whether the verb or the noun was the first to be invented is ...
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... verb such as to shunt tremble still on the boundary line between the vulgar and the literary idioms . Though the grammatical changes that have taken place since the publication of the authorized version are yet fewer in number , still ...
... verb such as to shunt tremble still on the boundary line between the vulgar and the literary idioms . Though the grammatical changes that have taken place since the publication of the authorized version are yet fewer in number , still ...
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... verb , as if they sprouted out from the root as from their parent stock.1 But what ideas can they connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be illustrated by this comparison ...
... verb , as if they sprouted out from the root as from their parent stock.1 But what ideas can they connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be illustrated by this comparison ...
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