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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... guage ; what language is , how it can form a vehicle or an organ of thought ; we want to know its origin , its nature , its laws ; and it is only in order to arrive at that knowledge that we collect , arrange , and classify all the ...
... guage ; what language is , how it can form a vehicle or an organ of thought ; we want to know its origin , its nature , its laws ; and it is only in order to arrive at that knowledge that we collect , arrange , and classify all the ...
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... guage , of which a professorship was lately founded in the University of Guatemala , 1 or to acquire the elegan- cies of the idiom of the Tcheremissians ; nor is it his ambition to explore the literature of the Samoyedes , or the New ...
... guage , of which a professorship was lately founded in the University of Guatemala , 1 or to acquire the elegan- cies of the idiom of the Tcheremissians ; nor is it his ambition to explore the literature of the Samoyedes , or the New ...
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... guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can hardly be less than nine hun- • dred . That ...
... guages and dialects , offers a field as large , if not larger , than any other branch of physical research . It is impossible to fix the exact number of known languages , but their number can hardly be less than nine hun- • dred . That ...
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... guage , without the aid of which not even the first step in this glorious career could have been made , remained unnoticed . Like a veil that hung too close over the eye of the human mind , it was hardly perceived . In an age when the ...
... guage , without the aid of which not even the first step in this glorious career could have been made , remained unnoticed . Like a veil that hung too close over the eye of the human mind , it was hardly perceived . In an age when the ...
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... guage has claims on your attention , such as few sciences can rival or excel . Having thus explained the manner in which I in- tend to treat the science of language , I hope in my next lecture to examine the objections of those phi ...
... guage has claims on your attention , such as few sciences can rival or excel . Having thus explained the manner in which I in- tend to treat the science of language , I hope in my next lecture to examine the objections of those phi ...
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