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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... classification is prop- erly carried out , it teaches us that nothing exists in nature by accident ; that each individual belongs to a species , each species to a genus ; and that there are laws which underlie the apparent freedom and ...
... classification is prop- erly carried out , it teaches us that nothing exists in nature by accident ; that each individual belongs to a species , each species to a genus ; and that there are laws which underlie the apparent freedom and ...
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... the stamina , and pistils . He learns , so to say , the practical grammar of the plant before he can begin to compare , to arrange , and classify . Again , no one can enter with advantage on the 30 THEORETICAL STAGE .
... the stamina , and pistils . He learns , so to say , the practical grammar of the plant before he can begin to compare , to arrange , and classify . Again , no one can enter with advantage on the 30 THEORETICAL STAGE .
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... classification . The philosopher must command his classes like regiments which obey the order of their general . Thus alone can the battle be fought and truth be conquered . After this rapid glance at the history of the other physical ...
... classification . The philosopher must command his classes like regiments which obey the order of their general . Thus alone can the battle be fought and truth be conquered . After this rapid glance at the history of the other physical ...
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... classify all the facts of language that are within our reach . And here I must protest , at the very outset of these lectures , against the supposition that the student of 1 language must necessarily be a great linguist . I shall have ...
... classify all the facts of language that are within our reach . And here I must protest , at the very outset of these lectures , against the supposition that the student of 1 language must necessarily be a great linguist . I shall have ...
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... classification of all the varieties of human speech , and that only after this has been accomplished would it be safe to venture on the great questions which underlie all physical research , the questions as to the what , the whence ...
... classification of all the varieties of human speech , and that only after this has been accomplished would it be safe to venture on the great questions which underlie all physical research , the questions as to the what , the whence ...
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