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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Page 54
... once learnt to speak and to reason . It is the fashion to laugh at the idea of an artificial , still more of a universal language . But if this problem were really so absurd , a man like Leibniz would hardly have taken so deep an ...
... once learnt to speak and to reason . It is the fashion to laugh at the idea of an artificial , still more of a universal language . But if this problem were really so absurd , a man like Leibniz would hardly have taken so deep an ...
Page 55
... once carried out , it could be acquired by others with- out a dictionary , and with comparative ease . He should be able to carry it out , he says , if he were younger and less occupied , or if young men of talent were by his side . A ...
... once carried out , it could be acquired by others with- out a dictionary , and with comparative ease . He should be able to carry it out , he says , if he were younger and less occupied , or if young men of talent were by his side . A ...
Page 56
... once that the scheme there traced out was capable of much greater perfection . This work had been published by the Royal Society , and the au- thor's name was so well known as one of its founders , that it could hardly have escaped the ...
... once that the scheme there traced out was capable of much greater perfection . This work had been published by the Royal Society , and the au- thor's name was so well known as one of its founders , that it could hardly have escaped the ...
Page 71
... once known to signify God , then ida must signify that which is opposed to God , namely , idol . If dab be spirit , odab will be body ; if dad be heaven odad will be hell . Again , if saba is king BISHOP WILKINS . 71.
... once known to signify God , then ida must signify that which is opposed to God , namely , idol . If dab be spirit , odab will be body ; if dad be heaven odad will be hell . Again , if saba is king BISHOP WILKINS . 71.
Page 72
... once established , may be matched to a system of phonetic exponents ; but we maintain , until we are taught the contrary , that no real language was ever made in this manner . There never was an independent array of deter- minate ...
... once established , may be matched to a system of phonetic exponents ; but we maintain , until we are taught the contrary , that no real language was ever made in this manner . There never was an independent array of deter- minate ...
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Agni Alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν