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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... races of America had never submitted , for any length of time , to a powerful political concentration , and that they had never succeeded in founding great 1 Du Ponceau , p . 110 . 2 S. F. Waldeck , Lettre à M. Jomard des environs de ...
... races of America had never submitted , for any length of time , to a powerful political concentration , and that they had never succeeded in founding great 1 Du Ponceau , p . 110 . 2 S. F. Waldeck , Lettre à M. Jomard des environs de ...
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... race in Hungary , or on the Tatar race in Turkey , unless we knew from written documents the migrations and set- tlements of the Mongolic and Tataric tribes in Europe . A botanist , again , comparing several specimens of rye , would ...
... race in Hungary , or on the Tatar race in Turkey , unless we knew from written documents the migrations and set- tlements of the Mongolic and Tataric tribes in Europe . A botanist , again , comparing several specimens of rye , would ...
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... races , and the presence of the cucumber in Greece , the orange and cherry in Italy , the potatoe in England , and the vine at the Cape , can be fully explained by the historian only . The more intimate relation , therefore , between ...
... races , and the presence of the cucumber in Greece , the orange and cherry in Italy , the potatoe in England , and the vine at the Cape , can be fully explained by the historian only . The more intimate relation , therefore , between ...
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... races by whom they are or have been spoken . In the course of these considerations , we had to lay down two axioms , to which we shall frequently have to appeal in the progress of our investigations . The first declares grammar to be ...
... races by whom they are or have been spoken . In the course of these considerations , we had to lay down two axioms , to which we shall frequently have to appeal in the progress of our investigations . The first declares grammar to be ...
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... race of the Bavarians . ( Pott , Indo - Germ . Sp . s . 44. Leo , Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung , b . ii . s . 258. ) Russian , njemez ' ; Slo- . Aglossoi , or speechless . The name which the STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES . 91.
... race of the Bavarians . ( Pott , Indo - Germ . Sp . s . 44. Leo , Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung , b . ii . s . 258. ) Russian , njemez ' ; Slo- . Aglossoi , or speechless . The name which the STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES . 91.
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