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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... never seems to miss the high end at which it aims . The dialects of Ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative ...
... never seems to miss the high end at which it aims . The dialects of Ancient Greece , ransacked as they have been by classical scholars , such as Maittaire , Giese , and Ahrens , will amply reward a fresh battue of the comparative ...
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... never be allowed to sever itself from the general body of natural science , and in particular from physiology . But , on the other hand , if man is the apex of the creation , if he is the end to which all organic formations tend from ...
... never be allowed to sever itself from the general body of natural science , and in particular from physiology . But , on the other hand , if man is the apex of the creation , if he is the end to which all organic formations tend from ...
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... never reduced as yet to a fixed stand- ard by the influence of a national literature , never written down at all , and never analyzed before by grammatical science . The whole of the first volume of Dr. Bleek's " Comparative Grammar of ...
... never reduced as yet to a fixed stand- ard by the influence of a national literature , never written down at all , and never analyzed before by grammatical science . The whole of the first volume of Dr. Bleek's " Comparative Grammar of ...
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... never speak without singing . " This description , though somewhat exaggerated , is correct in the main , there being six or eight musical accents or modulations in this as in other monosyl- labic tongues , by which the different ...
... never speak without singing . " This description , though somewhat exaggerated , is correct in the main , there being six or eight musical accents or modulations in this as in other monosyl- labic tongues , by which the different ...
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... never again . It is per- fectly true that such principles as the Te pi and the Ukuhlonipa could never become powerful agents in the literary languages of civilized nations , and that we must not look for traces of their influence either ...
... never again . It is per- fectly true that such principles as the Te pi and the Ukuhlonipa could never become powerful agents in the literary languages of civilized nations , and that we must not look for traces of their influence either ...
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