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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Page 91
... idea that it is possible to express oneself in any but one's own language . The Poles called , their neighbors , the Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; 1 just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish ...
... idea that it is possible to express oneself in any but one's own language . The Poles called , their neighbors , the Germans , Niemiec , niemy mean- ing dumb ; 1 just as the Greeks called the Barbarians 1 The Turks applied the Polish ...
Page 93
... idea that other nations also possessed real languages . Themistocles studied Per- sian , and is said to have spoken it fluently . The ex- pedition of Alexander contributed still more powerfully to a knowledge of other nations and ...
... idea that other nations also possessed real languages . Themistocles studied Per- sian , and is said to have spoken it fluently . The ex- pedition of Alexander contributed still more powerfully to a knowledge of other nations and ...
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... idea of numbers , of a singular and a plural , was fixed and defined by the philosopher . But Aristotle had no such technical terms as singular and plural ; and he does not even al- lude to the dual . He only speaks of the cases which ...
... idea of numbers , of a singular and a plural , was fixed and defined by the philosopher . But Aristotle had no such technical terms as singular and plural ; and he does not even al- lude to the dual . He only speaks of the cases which ...
Page 106
... ideas were never so attractive as when they had been reprobated by Cato and his friends . Every new generation became more and more impregnated with Greek . In 1311 we hear of a consul ( Publius Crassus ) who , like another Mezzofanti ...
... ideas were never so attractive as when they had been reprobated by Cato and his friends . Every new generation became more and more impregnated with Greek . In 1311 we hear of a consul ( Publius Crassus ) who , like another Mezzofanti ...
Page 108
... ideas in order to explain , what otherwise would seem almost inexplicable , the zeal and earnestness with which the study of Greek grammar was taken up at Rome , not only by a few scholars and philosophers , but by the leading statesmen ...
... ideas in order to explain , what otherwise would seem almost inexplicable , the zeal and earnestness with which the study of Greek grammar was taken up at Rome , not only by a few scholars and philosophers , but by the leading statesmen ...
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