Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 2C. Scribner, 1869 |
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Page 57
... earth , Jupiter , Saturn , & Mars , - Venus , & c . , which are intelligible to mathemati- cians and astronomers all over the world . " Now if to everything and notion , " — I quote from Bishop Wilkins ( p . 21 ) , " there were assigned ...
... earth , Jupiter , Saturn , & Mars , - Venus , & c . , which are intelligible to mathemati- cians and astronomers all over the world . " Now if to everything and notion , " — I quote from Bishop Wilkins ( p . 21 ) , " there were assigned ...
Page 63
... earth , land , & c . After this we arrive at the five categories , subdi- vided into thirty - four subaltern genera , which , to- gether with the six classes of transcendental notions , complete , in the end , his forty genera . The ...
... earth , land , & c . After this we arrive at the five categories , subdi- vided into thirty - four subaltern genera , which , to- gether with the six classes of transcendental notions , complete , in the end , his forty genera . The ...
Page 73
... earth , elevates our thoughts as high as the stars , and leads us through the vast spaces and large rooms of this mighty fabric , " is nothing more or less than the gathering up of the single by means of the general.1 The Latin ...
... earth , elevates our thoughts as high as the stars , and leads us through the vast spaces and large rooms of this mighty fabric , " is nothing more or less than the gathering up of the single by means of the general.1 The Latin ...
Page 75
... earth , & c . But it was called simply the white , the white color of its grain seeming to distinguish it best from those plants with which otherwise it had the greatest sim- ilarity . For this is one of the secrets of onomato- poësis ...
... earth , & c . But it was called simply the white , the white color of its grain seeming to distinguish it best from those plants with which otherwise it had the greatest sim- ilarity . For this is one of the secrets of onomato- poësis ...
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... earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and weeds , and as a compound ( śvetasunga , white - awned ) , it entered into the name of barley . In Sanskrit , silver is counted as white , and called śveta , and the feminine sveti was ...
... earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and weeds , and as a compound ( śvetasunga , white - awned ) , it entered into the name of barley . In Sanskrit , silver is counted as white , and called śveta , and the feminine sveti was ...
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