Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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Friedrich Max Müller. - England . Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Celtic , Saxon , Dan- ish , French , Spanish , Italian , German — nay , even Hin- dustani , Malay , and Chinese words , lie mixed together in the English dictionary . On the ...
Friedrich Max Müller. - England . Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Celtic , Saxon , Dan- ish , French , Spanish , Italian , German — nay , even Hin- dustani , Malay , and Chinese words , lie mixed together in the English dictionary . On the ...
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... Celts , Walh in old High German , vealh in Anglo - Saxon , the modern Welsh , is supposed to be the same as the Sanskrit mlechha , and means a person who talks indistinctly.1 Even when the Greeks began to feel the necessity of ...
... Celts , Walh in old High German , vealh in Anglo - Saxon , the modern Welsh , is supposed to be the same as the Sanskrit mlechha , and means a person who talks indistinctly.1 Even when the Greeks began to feel the necessity of ...
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... Celts . He adds that they were an old race , and in their man- ner and dress like the Celts . Hence many writers have mistaken them for Celts , neglecting the criterion of language , on which Polybius lays such proper stress . The ...
... Celts . He adds that they were an old race , and in their man- ner and dress like the Celts . Hence many writers have mistaken them for Celts , neglecting the criterion of language , on which Polybius lays such proper stress . The ...
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... Celts and Germans , with more respect and sympathy : they would , at all events , have looked at them with a more discriminating eye . And , if they had done so , they would have discovered , in spite of outward differ- ences , that ...
... Celts and Germans , with more respect and sympathy : they would , at all events , have looked at them with a more discriminating eye . And , if they had done so , they would have discovered , in spite of outward differ- ences , that ...
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... Celtic , and he tries to discover Hebrew , Greek , English , and French words in the idioms of America . Hervas , on the contrary , though embrac- ing in his catalogue five times the number of languages that were known to Gebelin , is ...
... Celtic , and he tries to discover Hebrew , Greek , English , and French words in the idioms of America . Hervas , on the contrary , though embrac- ing in his catalogue five times the number of languages that were known to Gebelin , is ...
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