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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... never rests again until all that seems irregular has been eliminated , until the full beauty and harmony of nature has been perceived , and the eye of man has caught the eye of God beaming out from the midst of all His works . The ...
... never rests again until all that seems irregular has been eliminated , until the full beauty and harmony of nature has been perceived , and the eye of man has caught the eye of God beaming out from the midst of all His works . The ...
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... never achieved anything ; that it has done nothing but prove that things must be exactly as they had been found to be by the ob- server and collector . Physical science , however , would never have been what it is without the impulses ...
... never achieved anything ; that it has done nothing but prove that things must be exactly as they had been found to be by the ob- server and collector . Physical science , however , would never have been what it is without the impulses ...
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... never have heard of the Copernican system . Truth is not found by addi- • tion and multiplication only . When speaking of Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as ...
... never have heard of the Copernican system . Truth is not found by addi- • tion and multiplication only . When speaking of Kep- ler , whose method of reasoning has been considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as ...
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... never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as important , nay , for the so- lution of some of our problems , more important ...
... never pro- duced any literature at all , the jargons of savage tribes , the clicks of the Hottentots , and the vocal modulations of the Indo - Chinese are as important , nay , for the so- lution of some of our problems , more important ...
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... never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does not wish to speak the Kachikal lan- guage , of ...
... never aspired to the fame of a Mithridates or a Mezzofanti . It is impossible for a student of language to acquire a prac- tical knowledge of all tongues with which he has to deal . He does not wish to speak the Kachikal lan- guage , of ...
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