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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... Greek ever thought of learning a foreign language . Why should he ? He divided the whole world into Greeks and Barbarians , and he would have felt himself degraded by adopting either the dress or the manners or the language of his ...
... Greek ever thought of learning a foreign language . Why should he ? He divided the whole world into Greeks and Barbarians , and he would have felt himself degraded by adopting either the dress or the manners or the language of his ...
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... Greeks began to feel the necessity of communicating with foreign nations , when they felt a desire of learning their ... Greek would naturally learn the utterances both of his father and mother , and the lucrative nature of his services ...
... Greeks began to feel the necessity of communicating with foreign nations , when they felt a desire of learning their ... Greek would naturally learn the utterances both of his father and mother , and the lucrative nature of his services ...
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... Greek merchants , follow- ing the course of the Volga upwards to the Oural mountains , were accompanied by seven interpreters , speaking seven different languages . These must have comprised Slavonic , Tataric , and Finnic dialects ...
... Greek merchants , follow- ing the course of the Volga upwards to the Oural mountains , were accompanied by seven interpreters , speaking seven different languages . These must have comprised Slavonic , Tataric , and Finnic dialects ...
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... 17 . 8 The translation of Mago's work on agriculture belongs to a later time . There is no proof that Mago , who wrote twenty - eight books on agriculture were written in Greek , and for the Greeks . 94 STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES .
... 17 . 8 The translation of Mago's work on agriculture belongs to a later time . There is no proof that Mago , who wrote twenty - eight books on agriculture were written in Greek , and for the Greeks . 94 STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES .
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Friedrich Max Müller. were written in Greek , and for the Greeks . The na- tive language of Berosus was Babylonian , of Menander Phenician , of Manetho Egyptian . Berosus was able to read the cuneiform documents of Babylonia with the ...
Friedrich Max Müller. were written in Greek , and for the Greeks . The na- tive language of Berosus was Babylonian , of Menander Phenician , of Manetho Egyptian . Berosus was able to read the cuneiform documents of Babylonia with the ...
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