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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... earth , its flowers , and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which - thanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries has been reached in Astronomy ...
... earth , its flowers , and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which - thanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries has been reached in Astronomy ...
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... earth , and of the faunas and floras present or absent in each , nothing is so instructive as the minute exploration of a quarry close at hand , of a cave or a mine , in order to see things with our own eyes , to handle them , and to ...
... earth , and of the faunas and floras present or absent in each , nothing is so instructive as the minute exploration of a quarry close at hand , of a cave or a mine , in order to see things with our own eyes , to handle them , and to ...
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... in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth is not made of lias , swarming with Ammonites and Plesiosauri , nor is all language made of Sanskrit , teeming with Supines and Paulo - pluperfects . Up to 8.
... in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth is not made of lias , swarming with Ammonites and Plesiosauri , nor is all language made of Sanskrit , teeming with Supines and Paulo - pluperfects . Up to 8.
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... earth . But , nevertheless , it can tell us a great deal . By displaying to us the minute laws that regulate the changes of each consonant , each vowel , each accent , it disciplines the student , and teaches him respect for every jot ...
... earth . But , nevertheless , it can tell us a great deal . By displaying to us the minute laws that regulate the changes of each consonant , each vowel , each accent , it disciplines the student , and teaches him respect for every jot ...
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... earth should in that manner ever be of one language and one speech again , is hard to conceive . But that the problem itself admits of a solution , and of a very perfect solution , cannot be doubted . As there prevails much ...
... earth should in that manner ever be of one language and one speech again , is hard to conceive . But that the problem itself admits of a solution , and of a very perfect solution , cannot be doubted . As there prevails much ...
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Agni Alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν