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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... stand , and keeps us alive , even while analyzing mere prefixes and suffixes , to the grandeur and the sacredness of the issues that depend on these minutiæ . The foundations of our - THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE AS A PHYSICAL SCIENCE . 15 ...
... stand , and keeps us alive , even while analyzing mere prefixes and suffixes , to the grandeur and the sacredness of the issues that depend on these minutiæ . The foundations of our - THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE AS A PHYSICAL SCIENCE . 15 ...
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... stand before us as real and undeniable facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning against too rapid generalizations , both on the part of those who have no eye ...
... stand before us as real and undeniable facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning against too rapid generalizations , both on the part of those who have no eye ...
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... stands for an original on . Thus asleep is on sleep , aright is onrihte , away is onweg , aback is onbæc , again is ongén ( Ger . entgegen ) , among is ongemang , & c . This must suffice as an illustration of the prin- ciples on which ...
... stands for an original on . Thus asleep is on sleep , aright is onrihte , away is onweg , aback is onbæc , again is ongén ( Ger . entgegen ) , among is ongemang , & c . This must suffice as an illustration of the prin- ciples on which ...
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... 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 the South- African Languages ...
... 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 the South- African Languages ...
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... stand , " changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable , though having no connection , except in sound , with the word tu , underwent the same alteration , - star being now fetia ; tui , to strike , became tiai ; and ...
... stand , " changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable , though having no connection , except in sound , with the word tu , underwent the same alteration , - star being now fetia ; tui , to strike , became tiai ; and ...
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