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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... living speech . The rock inscriptions of Persia show what can be achieved by our science . I do not wonder that the discoveries due to the genius and the perse- vering industry of Grotefend , Burnouf , Lassen , and last , not least , of ...
... living speech . The rock inscriptions of Persia show what can be achieved by our science . I do not wonder that the discoveries due to the genius and the perse- vering industry of Grotefend , Burnouf , Lassen , and last , not least , of ...
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... living in the extreme north , beloved by Apollo , and distinguished for piety and happiness , were to the Greeks a mythical people , like the Uttarakurus of the Brahmans . Their name signifies " living beyond the mountains , " aud ...
... living in the extreme north , beloved by Apollo , and distinguished for piety and happiness , were to the Greeks a mythical people , like the Uttarakurus of the Brahmans . Their name signifies " living beyond the mountains , " aud ...
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... living speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as " he is a - going , I am a - coming , " & c . , in- stead of the more usual " he is going , I am coming ...
... living speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as " he is a - going , I am a - coming , " & c . , in- stead of the more usual " he is going , I am coming ...
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... living beings . People living near the Elbe might well be called the sons of the Elbe or Albings , as , for instance , the Nordalbingi in Holstein . Many of the geographical 1 Pointis and sleves be wel sittánde Full right and straight ...
... living beings . People living near the Elbe might well be called the sons of the Elbe or Albings , as , for instance , the Nordalbingi in Holstein . Many of the geographical 1 Pointis and sleves be wel sittánde Full right and straight ...
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... living human language as having originated in a conventional agreement , I endeavored to explain in one of my former lectures . But I should by no means wish to be understood as denying the possibility of framing some language in this ...
... living human language as having originated in a conventional agreement , I endeavored to explain in one of my former lectures . But I should by no means wish to be understood as denying the possibility of framing some language in this ...
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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