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 41
... But as it is the object of these lectures to prove that lan- guage is not a work of human art , in the same sense 1 D. Stewart , Works , vol . iii . p . 27 . as painting , or building , or writing , or LANGUAGE REVEALED . 41.
... But as it is the object of these lectures to prove that lan- guage is not a work of human art , in the same sense 1 D. Stewart , Works , vol . iii . p . 27 . as painting , or building , or writing , or LANGUAGE REVEALED . 41.
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... proved by man is by no means a new one . We know that Protagoras , an ancient Greek philosopher , after laying down some laws on gender , actually began to find fault with the text of Homer , because it did not agree with his rules ...
... proved by man is by no means a new one . We know that Protagoras , an ancient Greek philosopher , after laying down some laws on gender , actually began to find fault with the text of Homer , because it did not agree with his rules ...
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... proved that the second part of viginti is a corruption of the old word for ten . Ten , in Sanskrit , is dasan ; from it is derived dasati , a dec- ad ; and this dasati was again reduced to sati ; thus giving us with vi for dvi , two ...
... proved that the second part of viginti is a corruption of the old word for ten . Ten , in Sanskrit , is dasan ; from it is derived dasati , a dec- ad ; and this dasati was again reduced to sati ; thus giving us with vi for dvi , two ...
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... prove that Latin was a living language long after Italian had learnt to run alone . Only let us clearly see what we mean by Latin . The classical Latin is one out of many dialects spoken by the Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the ...
... prove that Latin was a living language long after Italian had learnt to run alone . Only let us clearly see what we mean by Latin . The classical Latin is one out of many dialects spoken by the Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the ...
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... prove that man acted as a free agent in the for- mation of language . But it is not so . No single in- dividual could deliberately have set to work in order to abolish the old Latin genitive , and to replace it by the periphrastic ...
... prove that man acted as a free agent in the for- mation of language . But it is not so . No single in- dividual could deliberately have set to work in order to abolish the old Latin genitive , and to replace it by the periphrastic ...
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