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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... clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the advancement of which this Association is instituted . It is not an appendix to physiology or to anything else ; but its object is , on the contrary , capable ...
... clear as the physiological are , is the highest branch of that science for the advancement of which this Association is instituted . It is not an appendix to physiology or to anything else ; but its object is , on the contrary , capable ...
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... clearly used in two different senses , even in modern English . If we say " a loving child , " loving is a verbal adjective . If we say " loving our neighbor is our highest duty , " loving is a verbal substantive . Again , there are ...
... clearly used in two different senses , even in modern English . If we say " a loving child , " loving is a verbal adjective . If we say " loving our neighbor is our highest duty , " loving is a verbal substantive . Again , there are ...
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... clearly see that these are common property ; we perceive similarity , though at the same time great diversity : —1 5 1 2 3 Fakaafoan tasi lua , ua tolu fa lima Samoan tasi lua tolu fa lima Tongan taha ua tolu fa nima New Zealand tahi ...
... clearly see that these are common property ; we perceive similarity , though at the same time great diversity : —1 5 1 2 3 Fakaafoan tasi lua , ua tolu fa lima Samoan tasi lua tolu fa lima Tongan taha ua tolu fa nima New Zealand tahi ...
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... clear that if a radical or monosyllabic lan- guage , like Chinese , begins to change and to break out in independent dialects , the results must be very different from those which we observe in Latin as split up into the Romance ...
... clear that if a radical or monosyllabic lan- guage , like Chinese , begins to change and to break out in independent dialects , the results must be very different from those which we observe in Latin as split up into the Romance ...
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... clearly to guard against the name of the sovereign being ever used , even by accident , in ordinary con- versation , and this object is attained by tabooing even one portion of his name . " But this alteration , " as Mr. Hales continues ...
... clearly to guard against the name of the sovereign being ever used , even by accident , in ordinary con- versation , and this object is attained by tabooing even one portion of his name . " But this alteration , " as Mr. Hales continues ...
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