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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... German Ocean by the Angles , Saxons , and Juts of the continent . In thus considering and refuting the objections which have been , or might be , made against the admission of the science of language into the circle of the physical ...
... German Ocean by the Angles , Saxons , and Juts of the continent . In thus considering and refuting the objections which have been , or might be , made against the admission of the science of language into the circle of the physical ...
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... Germans during the Middle Ages ; and there is hardly a word in the higher intellectual terminology of Arabic , that might not be used , more or less naturally , by a writer in Turkish . But the Arabs , again , at the very outset of ...
... Germans during the Middle Ages ; and there is hardly a word in the higher intellectual terminology of Arabic , that might not be used , more or less naturally , by a writer in Turkish . But the Arabs , again , at the very outset of ...
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... German — nay , even Hin- dustani , Malay , and Chinese words , lie mixed together in the English dictionary . On the evidence of words alone it would be impossible to classify English with any other of the established stocks and stems ...
... German — nay , even Hin- dustani , Malay , and Chinese words , lie mixed together in the English dictionary . On the evidence of words alone it would be impossible to classify English with any other of the established stocks and stems ...
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... Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; 1 just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish name Niemiec to the Austrians . As early , as Constantinus Porphyrogeneta , cap . 30 , Nɛμérgio was used for the Ger ...
... Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; 1 just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish name Niemiec to the Austrians . As early , as Constantinus Porphyrogeneta , cap . 30 , Nɛμérgio was used for the Ger ...
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... 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 communicating with foreign nations ...
... 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 communicating with foreign nations ...
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