Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 2C. Scribner, 1869 |
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... believe it to be so as to the Latin and other more modern tongues , -in short , as to all European languages , old and young . " And he proceeds : " The second dis- covery which I believe I have made , and with which the former is ...
... believe it to be so as to the Latin and other more modern tongues , -in short , as to all European languages , old and young . " And he proceeds : " The second dis- covery which I believe I have made , and with which the former is ...
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... believe there is no science from which we , the students of language , may learn more than from Geology . Now , in Geology , if we have once ac- quired a general knowledge of the successive strata that form the crust of the earth , and ...
... believe there is no science from which we , the students of language , may learn more than from Geology . Now , in Geology , if we have once ac- quired a general knowledge of the successive strata that form the crust of the earth , and ...
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... believe , he has failed , ' as many have failed before and after him , by imagining that what has been found to be true in one portion of the vast kingdom of speech must be equally true in all . This is not so , and cannot be so ...
... believe , he has failed , ' as many have failed before and after him , by imagining that what has been found to be true in one portion of the vast kingdom of speech must be equally true in all . This is not so , and cannot be so ...
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... believe truly , " he says , " that languages are the best mirror of the human mind , and that an exact analysis of the signification of words would make us better acquainted than anything else with the operations of the understand- ing ...
... believe truly , " he says , " that languages are the best mirror of the human mind , and that an exact analysis of the signification of words would make us better acquainted than anything else with the operations of the understand- ing ...
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... believe , towards a better understanding of real language , if we can acquire a clear idea of what an artificial language would be , and how it would differ from living speech . The primary object of the Bishop was not to in- 1 The work ...
... believe , towards a better understanding of real language , if we can acquire a clear idea of what an artificial language would be , and how it would differ from living speech . The primary object of the Bishop was not to in- 1 The work ...
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