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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... spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of hu- man life and human thought , supply materials ca- pable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent ...
... spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of hu- man life and human thought , supply materials ca- pable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent ...
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... spoken in the six Northern Counties of England , or Ancient Northumbria , and on the Variations in their Grammar from that of Standard English , ' has lately been published by Mr. R. P. Peacock , Berlin , 1863. It is chiefly based on ...
... spoken in the six Northern Counties of England , or Ancient Northumbria , and on the Variations in their Grammar from that of Standard English , ' has lately been published by Mr. R. P. Peacock , Berlin , 1863. It is chiefly based on ...
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... all wait to have their spell broken or their riddle more satisfactorily read by the student of language . If , then , we turn our eyes again to the yet unnumbered dialects now spoken by MATERIALS FOR THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE . 13.
... all wait to have their spell broken or their riddle more satisfactorily read by the student of language . If , then , we turn our eyes again to the yet unnumbered dialects now spoken by MATERIALS FOR THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE . 13.
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... spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , Amer- ica , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left to him to conquer . - There is another charm peculiar ...
... spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , Amer- ica , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left to him to conquer . - There is another charm peculiar ...
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... spoken of as an offshoot of the Sandwich Islands , mere ridicule would be a very in- appropriate and very inefficient answer to such a theory . It is not very long ago that all the Greek and Latin scholars of Europe shook their heads at ...
... spoken of as an offshoot of the Sandwich Islands , mere ridicule would be a very in- appropriate and very inefficient answer to such a theory . It is not very long ago that all the Greek and Latin scholars of Europe shook their heads at ...
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