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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... clearly see , that , whatever the origin of language was , its first tendency must have been towards an unbounded va- riety . To this there was , however , a natural check , which prepared from the very beginning the growth of national ...
... clearly see , that , whatever the origin of language was , its first tendency must have been towards an unbounded va- riety . To this there was , however , a natural check , which prepared from the very beginning the growth of national ...
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... clearly see what we mean by Latin . The classical Latin is one out of many dialects spoken by the Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the dialect of Latium , in Latium the dialect of Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was ...
... clearly see what we mean by Latin . The classical Latin is one out of many dialects spoken by the Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the dialect of Latium , in Latium the dialect of Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was ...
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... clearly the real character of language . The great periods in the growth of the earth which have been established by geological re- search are brought to their close , or very nearly so , when we discover the first vestiges of human ...
... clearly the real character of language . The great periods in the growth of the earth which have been established by geological re- search are brought to their close , or very nearly so , when we discover the first vestiges of human ...
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... work on etymology , and an index to Plautus . - Lersch , Die Sprachphilosophie der Alten , ii . 111 . 2 Lersch , ii . 113 , 114 , 143 . more clearly the wide interest which grammatical stud- ies had GREEK GRAMMAR AT ROME . 109.
... work on etymology , and an index to Plautus . - Lersch , Die Sprachphilosophie der Alten , ii . 111 . 2 Lersch , ii . 113 , 114 , 143 . more clearly the wide interest which grammatical stud- ies had GREEK GRAMMAR AT ROME . 109.
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Friedrich Max Müller. more clearly the wide interest which grammatical stud- ies had then excited in the foremost ranks of Roman society than Caesar's work on Latin grammar . It was composed by him during the Gallic war , and dedicated ...
Friedrich Max Müller. more clearly the wide interest which grammatical stud- ies had then excited in the foremost ranks of Roman society than Caesar's work on Latin grammar . It was composed by him during the Gallic war , and dedicated ...
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