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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... doubt the laughers were with the emperor ; but for all that , schisma remained a neuter , and not even an emperor could change its gender or termination . T The idea that language can be changed and im- proved by man is by no means a ...
... doubt the laughers were with the emperor ; but for all that , schisma remained a neuter , and not even an emperor could change its gender or termination . T The idea that language can be changed and im- proved by man is by no means a ...
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... doubt these are the royal heads in the history of language . But as politi- cal history ought to be more than a chronicle of royal dynasties , so the historian of language ought never to 1 " Some people , who may have been taught to ...
... doubt these are the royal heads in the history of language . But as politi- cal history ought to be more than a chronicle of royal dynasties , so the historian of language ought never to 1 " Some people , who may have been taught to ...
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... doubt the statement of Strabo , 2 who speaks of seventy tribes liv- ing together in that country , which , even now , is called " the mountain of languages . " In modern times , again , when missionaries have devoted themselves to the ...
... doubt the statement of Strabo , 2 who speaks of seventy tribes liv- ing together in that country , which , even now , is called " the mountain of languages . " In modern times , again , when missionaries have devoted themselves to the ...
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... doubt , if my object had been different , I might easily have shown that , without literary cultivation , language would never have acquired that settled character which is essential for the commu- nication of thought ; that it would ...
... doubt , if my object had been different , I might easily have shown that , without literary cultivation , language would never have acquired that settled character which is essential for the commu- nication of thought ; that it would ...
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... doubt , sounds very barbarous to a classical ear ac- customed to estis . And we see how French , for in- stance , has strictly preserved the Latin forms in nous sommes , vous êtes , ils sont . But in Spanish we find somos , sois , son ...
... doubt , sounds very barbarous to a classical ear ac- customed to estis . And we see how French , for in- stance , has strictly preserved the Latin forms in nous sommes , vous êtes , ils sont . But in Spanish we find somos , sois , son ...
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