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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... primitive lan guage , is like calling branches of a tree primitive branches , or like imagining that in some country hewn trunks could grow instead of trees . Such ideas may be conceived , but they do not agree with the laws of nature ...
... primitive lan guage , is like calling branches of a tree primitive branches , or like imagining that in some country hewn trunks could grow instead of trees . Such ideas may be conceived , but they do not agree with the laws of nature ...
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... primitive language of mankind , or at least the parent of Greek , Latin , and German , we might understand that it should have led to quite a new classification of these tongues . But Sanskrit does not stand to Greek , Latin , the ...
... primitive language of mankind , or at least the parent of Greek , Latin , and German , we might understand that it should have led to quite a new classification of these tongues . But Sanskrit does not stand to Greek , Latin , the ...
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Friedrich Max Müller. after Latin had once been shown to be more primitive on many points than Greek , it was easy to see that the Teutonic , the Celtic , and the Slavonic languages also , contained each a number of formations which it ...
Friedrich Max Müller. after Latin had once been shown to be more primitive on many points than Greek , it was easy to see that the Teutonic , the Celtic , and the Slavonic languages also , contained each a number of formations which it ...
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... primitive state than Provençal , and that , therefore , it is impossible to classify French as the daughter of Provençal , and as the granddaughter of Latin . We have in Provençal : - sem , corresponding to the French nous sommes , etz ...
... primitive state than Provençal , and that , therefore , it is impossible to classify French as the daughter of Provençal , and as the granddaughter of Latin . We have in Provençal : - sem , corresponding to the French nous sommes , etz ...
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Friedrich Max Müller. back again into the more healthy , more primitive , more Latin , sommes , êtes , sont ; sumus ... primitive than Greek ; for sum stands for es - um , es for es - is , est for es - ti . In the first person plural ...
Friedrich Max Müller. back again into the more healthy , more primitive , more Latin , sommes , êtes , sont ; sumus ... primitive than Greek ; for sum stands for es - um , es for es - is , est for es - ti . In the first person plural ...
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