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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... later Persian , a most effective cross - fire was opened ; how even more powerful ord- nance was brought up from the arsenal of the ancient Sanskrit ; how outpost after outpost was driven in , a practical breach effected , till at last ...
... later Persian , a most effective cross - fire was opened ; how even more powerful ord- nance was brought up from the arsenal of the ancient Sanskrit ; how outpost after outpost was driven in , a practical breach effected , till at last ...
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... later times even sup- planting it altogether ; for it is from the Prâkrit , and not from the literary Sanskrit , that the modern ver- naculars of India branched off in course of time . Nor is the simultaneous existence of two such rep ...
... later times even sup- planting it altogether ; for it is from the Prâkrit , and not from the literary Sanskrit , that the modern ver- naculars of India branched off in course of time . Nor is the simultaneous existence of two such rep ...
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... later days : yet its very poverty and simplicity render it all the more valuable in the eyes of historians and philosophers . For of this first poetry , simple as it is , or of this first philosophy in all its childishness , man only is ...
... later days : yet its very poverty and simplicity render it all the more valuable in the eyes of historians and philosophers . For of this first poetry , simple as it is , or of this first philosophy in all its childishness , man only is ...
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... later lectures . Mûtus has been well derived by Professor A. Weber ( Kuhn's Zeitschrift , vi . p . 318 ) from the Sanskrit mû , to bind ( Pâņ . vi . 4 , 20 ) , so that its original meaning would have been " tongue- bound . " As to ...
... later lectures . Mûtus has been well derived by Professor A. Weber ( Kuhn's Zeitschrift , vi . p . 318 ) from the Sanskrit mû , to bind ( Pâņ . vi . 4 , 20 ) , so that its original meaning would have been " tongue- bound . " As to ...
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... later times , the scheme adopted by Greek gram- marians is as follows : I. Phōnéenta , vocales , voiced vowels . II . Symphōna , consonantes . II . 1. Hemiphōna , semi - vocales , half - voiced , l , m , n , r , s : or , Hygrá , liquidæ ...
... later times , the scheme adopted by Greek gram- marians is as follows : I. Phōnéenta , vocales , voiced vowels . II . Symphōna , consonantes . II . 1. Hemiphōna , semi - vocales , half - voiced , l , m , n , r , s : or , Hygrá , liquidæ ...
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