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 73
... later fem- inine representation of the old neuter fatum , fée ; pra- tum a meadow , pré . From pratum we derive prataria , which in French becomes prairie ; from fatum , fataria , the English fairy . Thus every Latin participle in atus ...
... later fem- inine representation of the old neuter fatum , fée ; pra- tum a meadow , pré . From pratum we derive prataria , which in French becomes prairie ; from fatum , fataria , the English fairy . Thus every Latin participle in atus ...
Page 90
... later generation . It was the teacher of languages who first compared the cate- gories of thought with the realities of the Greek lan- guage . It was he who transferred the terminology of Aristotle and the Stoics from thought to speech ...
... later generation . It was the teacher of languages who first compared the cate- gories of thought with the realities of the Greek lan- guage . It was he who transferred the terminology of Aristotle and the Stoics from thought to speech ...
Page 94
... later writers.1 Lycurgus may have travelled to Spain and Africa , he certainly did not proceed to India , nor is there any mention of his intercourse with the Indian Gym- nosophists before Aristocrates , who lived about 100 B. C. The ...
... later writers.1 Lycurgus may have travelled to Spain and Africa , he certainly did not proceed to India , nor is there any mention of his intercourse with the Indian Gym- nosophists before Aristocrates , who lived about 100 B. C. The ...
Page 101
... later days when the setting sun of Greek civilization mingled its rays with the dawn of Roman greatness ; but ever since the first Greek colonists started Westward Ho ! in search of new homes . It was from the Greeks that the Italians ...
... later days when the setting sun of Greek civilization mingled its rays with the dawn of Roman greatness ; but ever since the first Greek colonists started Westward Ho ! in search of new homes . It was from the Greeks that the Italians ...
Page 109
... later Carneades , like- wise sent to Rome as ambassador , was prohibited from lecturing by Cato . After these lectures of Crates , grammatical and philological studies became extreme- ly popular at Rome . We hear of Lucius Elius Stilo ...
... later Carneades , like- wise sent to Rome as ambassador , was prohibited from lecturing by Cato . After these lectures of Crates , grammatical and philological studies became extreme- ly popular at Rome . We hear of Lucius Elius Stilo ...
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