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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... sounds very barbarous to a classical ear ac- customed to estis . And we see how French , for in- stance , has strictly preserved the Latin forms in nous sommes , vous êtes , ils sont . But in Spanish we find somos , sois , son ; and ...
... sounds very barbarous to a classical ear ac- customed to estis . And we see how French , for in- stance , has strictly preserved the Latin forms in nous sommes , vous êtes , ils sont . But in Spanish we find somos , sois , son ; and ...
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... sound of that key - note of thought which had been struck for the first time by the apostle of the 1 Albert , Count of Bollstädten , or , as he is more generally called , Alber- tus Magnus , the pioneer of modern physical science ...
... sound of that key - note of thought which had been struck for the first time by the apostle of the 1 Albert , Count of Bollstädten , or , as he is more generally called , Alber- tus Magnus , the pioneer of modern physical science ...
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... sound anomalous and difficult , can be rendered easy by a comparison of analogous expres- sions in French . The Lord's Prayer was published in 1548 in fourteen languages , by Bibliander ; in 1591 in twenty - six languages , by Roccha ...
... sound anomalous and difficult , can be rendered easy by a comparison of analogous expres- sions in French . The Lord's Prayer was published in 1548 in fourteen languages , by Bibliander ; in 1591 in twenty - six languages , by Roccha ...
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... sound inductive reasoning to a subject which before him had only been treated at random . He pointed 1 Hermathena Joannis Goropii Becani : Antuerpiæ , 1580. Origines Ant- verpianæ , 1569. André Kempe , in his work on the language of ...
... sound inductive reasoning to a subject which before him had only been treated at random . He pointed 1 Hermathena Joannis Goropii Becani : Antuerpiæ , 1580. Origines Ant- verpianæ , 1569. André Kempe , in his work on the language of ...
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... sound or sense of words , it is one of the principal things by which the con- nection of languages with one another is to be discovered . And , therefore , when we find that two languages practise these great arts of language , — tive ...
... sound or sense of words , it is one of the principal things by which the con- nection of languages with one another is to be discovered . And , therefore , when we find that two languages practise these great arts of language , — tive ...
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