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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... guage on some of the more important problems of philosophy and religion . Whilst expressing my gratitude to the readers and reviewers of the first series of my Lectures , to those who differed from me even more than to those who agreed ...
... guage on some of the more important problems of philosophy and religion . Whilst expressing my gratitude to the readers and reviewers of the first series of my Lectures , to those who differed from me even more than to those who agreed ...
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... guage by which man differs from all other created things , the Science of Language has a right to hold that place which I claimed for it when addressing for the first time the members and supporters of this Institution . Allow me to ...
... guage by which man differs from all other created things , the Science of Language has a right to hold that place which I claimed for it when addressing for the first time the members and supporters of this Institution . Allow me to ...
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... guages back to Sanskrit ; and even at the present moment there are still many persons who cannot realize the fact that ... guage of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Languages , printed at the Cape ...
... guages back to Sanskrit ; and even at the present moment there are still many persons who cannot realize the fact that ... guage of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Languages , printed at the Cape ...
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... guage as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit , as fol- lowed , at the beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the comparative researches of Ori- ental scholars . The origin of the grammatical forms , of gender and ...
... guage as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit , as fol- lowed , at the beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the comparative researches of Ori- ental scholars . The origin of the grammatical forms , of gender and ...
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... guage . I 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 ...
... guage . I 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 ...
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