Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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... derived from radical elements consisting each of a few consonants and vowels , and , what is most important , expressive of general ideas . What enormous quantities of words can be reduced to one germ , what enormous distances of time ...
... derived from radical elements consisting each of a few consonants and vowels , and , what is most important , expressive of general ideas . What enormous quantities of words can be reduced to one germ , what enormous distances of time ...
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... derived from conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ? -Berkeley . - Process of naming . - Origin of concepts . - Former theories . - The clamor concomitans . - The conceptual foundation of language . - Our conceptual ...
... derived from conceptual roots . - Are concepts possible without words ? -Berkeley . - Process of naming . - Origin of concepts . - Former theories . - The clamor concomitans . - The conceptual foundation of language . - Our conceptual ...
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... derived alone , the ether , from del Oeîv , because it was always running and moving1 . The Romans followed the example of the Greeks Poets like Lucretius and Ovid indulged in etymologies , whenever they seemed to agree with their ...
... derived alone , the ether , from del Oeîv , because it was always running and moving1 . The Romans followed the example of the Greeks Poets like Lucretius and Ovid indulged in etymologies , whenever they seemed to agree with their ...
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... derived from good , because phonetic laws will not allow it , and because the two words run parallel , and never approach one another , as far as we can follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and ...
... derived from good , because phonetic laws will not allow it , and because the two words run parallel , and never approach one another , as far as we can follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and ...
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... derived religio from religare , to bind or hold back , and he did so , not simply as a philologist , but as a theologian . ' We are born , ' he says , ' under the con- dition that , when born , we should offer to God our justly due ...
... derived religio from religare , to bind or hold back , and he did so , not simply as a philologist , but as a theologian . ' We are born , ' he says , ' under the con- dition that , when born , we should offer to God our justly due ...
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