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 238
... passage quoted from the Lombard laws of Rothar , fereha , evidently the same word , is men- tioned as a name of oak ( roborem aut quercum quod 1 Theophrastus , De Historia Plantarum , iii . 8 , 2 . < est fereha ) ; and Grimm , in his ...
... passage quoted from the Lombard laws of Rothar , fereha , evidently the same word , is men- tioned as a name of oak ( roborem aut quercum quod 1 Theophrastus , De Historia Plantarum , iii . 8 , 2 . < est fereha ) ; and Grimm , in his ...
Page 239
... passage ( p . 8 seq . ) : — " The deposits of peat in Denmark , varying in depth from ten to thirty feet , have been formed in hollows or depressions in the northern drift or boul- der formations hereafter to be described . The lowest ...
... passage ( p . 8 seq . ) : — " The deposits of peat in Denmark , varying in depth from ten to thirty feet , have been formed in hollows or depressions in the northern drift or boul- der formations hereafter to be described . The lowest ...
Page 247
... passage in Hesiod , καὶ τῷ χαλκῷ πρὸς τοῦτο ἐχρῶντο , ὡς τῷ σιδήρῳ πρὸς γεωργίαν , διά τινος βαφῆς τὸν χαλκὸν στεῤῥοποιοῦντες . In Strabo , xiii . p . 610 , the process of making the alloy of copper and zinc is described , and if yɛv ...
... passage in Hesiod , καὶ τῷ χαλκῷ πρὸς τοῦτο ἐχρῶντο , ὡς τῷ σιδήρῳ πρὸς γεωργίαν , διά τινος βαφῆς τὸν χαλκὸν στεῤῥοποιοῦντες . In Strabo , xiii . p . 610 , the process of making the alloy of copper and zinc is described , and if yɛv ...
Page 248
... passages of the " Atharva Veda " ( xi . 3 , 1 , 7 ) , and the “ Vâjasaneyi - sanhitâ ” ( xviii . 13 ) , a dis- tinction is made between syâmam ayas , dark - brown metal , and loham or lohitam ayas , bright metal , the former meaning ...
... passages of the " Atharva Veda " ( xi . 3 , 1 , 7 ) , and the “ Vâjasaneyi - sanhitâ ” ( xviii . 13 ) , a dis- tinction is made between syâmam ayas , dark - brown metal , and loham or lohitam ayas , bright metal , the former meaning ...
Page 303
... passage of Deuteronomy , " And ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods , " uses the expression , " die Götzen ihrer Götter . " What thus happens in different dialects may hap- pen also in one and the same language ; and this ...
... passage of Deuteronomy , " And ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods , " uses the expression , " die Götzen ihrer Götter . " What thus happens in different dialects may hap- pen also in one and the same language ; and this ...
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