Essays chiefly on the science of language with index to vols 3 and 4Scribner, Armstrong, 1876 |
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... There are few of the great universities of Europe without a chair for that language which , from the very beginning of history , as far as it is known to us , - seems always to have been spoken by the largest 2 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
... There are few of the great universities of Europe without a chair for that language which , from the very beginning of history , as far as it is known to us , - seems always to have been spoken by the largest 2 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
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Friedrich Max Müller. - seems always to have been spoken by the largest number of human beings , I mean Chinese . In Paris we find not one , but two chairs for Chinese , one for the ancient , another for the modern language of that ...
Friedrich Max Müller. - seems always to have been spoken by the largest number of human beings , I mean Chinese . In Paris we find not one , but two chairs for Chinese , one for the ancient , another for the modern language of that ...
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... seem to have been intended exclusively for the support of theological students . But when other studies , once mere germs and shoots on the tree of knowledge , separated from the old stem and as- sumed an independent growth , whether ...
... seem to have been intended exclusively for the support of theological students . But when other studies , once mere germs and shoots on the tree of knowledge , separated from the old stem and as- sumed an independent growth , whether ...
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... seem to find most difficult to learn is that there are various degrees of certainty in etymologies even in those ... seems a more difficult lesson for an etymologist to learn than to say , I do not know . I do not know . Yet to my ...
... seem to find most difficult to learn is that there are various degrees of certainty in etymologies even in those ... seems a more difficult lesson for an etymologist to learn than to say , I do not know . I do not know . Yet to my ...
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... seem mere fastidiousness to reject so evident an etymology . But as soon as we know the real chemistry of vowels and consonants , we shrink in- stinctly from such combinations . If a German word has the same sound as a Greek word , the ...
... seem mere fastidiousness to reject so evident an etymology . But as soon as we know the real chemistry of vowels and consonants , we shrink in- stinctly from such combinations . If a German word has the same sound as a Greek word , the ...
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Page 239 - WITH one consent let all the earth To God their cheerful voices raise ; Glad homage pay with awful mirth, And sing before Him songs of praise.
Page 238 - From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Page 64 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 238 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 239 - Messiah's name. 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, His story; And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 169 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 239 - Him songs of praise. 2 Convinced that he is God alone, From Whom both we and all proceed ; We, whom He chooses for His own, The flock that He vouchsafes to feed. 3 O enter then His temple gate, Thence to His courts devoutly press; And still your grateful hymns repeat, And still His name with praises bless.
Page 446 - If the Science of Language has proved anything, it has proved that conceptual or discursive thought can be carried on in words only.
Page 173 - Oh, woe to youth, which must be destroyed by old age ! Woe to health, which must be destroyed by so many diseases ! Woe to this life, where a man remains so short a time! If there were no old age, no disease, no death ; if these could be made captive for ever ! " Then, betraying for the first time his intentions, the young prince said, " Let us turn back ; I must think how to accomplish deliverance.
Page 263 - ... because they act together with a compactness which is but little understood. Though belonging to various denominations of Christians, yet from the nature of their work, their isolated position, and their long experience, they have been led to think rather of the numerous questions on which they agree, than of those on which they differ, and they co-operate heartily together.