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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... less . The Science of Man , therefore , or , as it is sometimes called , Anthropology , must form the crown of all the natural sciences . And if it is lan- guage by which man differs from all other created things , the Science of ...
... less . The Science of Man , therefore , or , as it is sometimes called , Anthropology , must form the crown of all the natural sciences . And if it is lan- guage by which man differs from all other created things , the Science of ...
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... less success , during the last fifty years . That map was necessarily incomplete . It comprehended not much more than what in an atlas of the ancient world is called " Orbis Veteri- bus Notus , " where you distinguish names and ...
... less success , during the last fifty years . That map was necessarily incomplete . It comprehended not much more than what in an atlas of the ancient world is called " Orbis Veteri- bus Notus , " where you distinguish names and ...
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... less startling than this , which would make the Polynesian the primitive lan- guage of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Languages , printed at the Cape , written by a most learned and ingen- ious ...
... less startling than this , which would make the Polynesian the primitive lan- guage of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Languages , printed at the Cape , written by a most learned and ingen- ious ...
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... less we admit the process of dialectic regeneration to a much greater extent than we should be justi- fied in doing in the Aryan and Semitic families , our task of reconciliation would become hopeless . Will it be believed that since ...
... less we admit the process of dialectic regeneration to a much greater extent than we should be justi- fied in doing in the Aryan and Semitic families , our task of reconciliation would become hopeless . Will it be believed that since ...
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... less than forty or fifty of the most common words , which occur in conversa- tion , had been entirely changed . It is not necessary that all the simple words which go to make up a compound name should be changed . The alteration of one ...
... less than forty or fifty of the most common words , which occur in conversa- tion , had been entirely changed . It is not necessary that all the simple words which go to make up a compound name should be changed . The alteration of one ...
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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