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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... instance , one of the most characteristic features of the literary Chinese , the dialect of Nan kin , or the idiom of the Mandarins , that every syl- lable ends in a vowel , either pure or nasal.2 In Co- chin - Chinese , on the contrary ...
... instance , one of the most characteristic features of the literary Chinese , the dialect of Nan kin , or the idiom of the Mandarins , that every syl- lable ends in a vowel , either pure or nasal.2 In Co- chin - Chinese , on the contrary ...
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... instance , daï , signifies twenty - three entirely different things , according to the difference of ac- cent , so that people never speak without singing . " This description , though somewhat exaggerated , is correct in the main ...
... instance , daï , signifies twenty - three entirely different things , according to the difference of ac- cent , so that people never speak without singing . " This description , though somewhat exaggerated , is correct in the main ...
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... instance tori , so as to make it high treason to speak during her reign of Tories , this word being always supplied by another ; such , for instance , as Liberal - Conservative . The object was clearly to guard against the name of the ...
... instance tori , so as to make it high treason to speak during her reign of Tories , this word being always supplied by another ; such , for instance , as Liberal - Conservative . The object was clearly to guard against the name of the ...
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... instance , in the Antille Islands , 1 spoke a language different from that of their hus- bands , because the Caribes had killed the whole male population of the Arawakes and married their women ; and something similar seems to have ...
... instance , in the Antille Islands , 1 spoke a language different from that of their hus- bands , because the Caribes had killed the whole male population of the Arawakes and married their women ; and something similar seems to have ...
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... instance , our nu- merical figures , which are understood by people speaking different languages , and which , though dif- ferently pronounced in different parts of the world , convey everywhere the same idea . We have besides such ...
... instance , our nu- merical figures , which are understood by people speaking different languages , and which , though dif- ferently pronounced in different parts of the world , convey everywhere the same idea . We have besides such ...
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