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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... speak could not be raised without an effort to the dignity of a scientific problem . Man had studied every part of nature , the mineral treasures in the bowels of the earth , the flowers of each season , the & animals of every continent ...
... speak could not be raised without an effort to the dignity of a scientific problem . Man had studied every part of nature , the mineral treasures in the bowels of the earth , the flowers of each season , the & animals of every continent ...
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... speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within - the last fifty years ...
... speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross - examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose its secrets until questioned and , so to say , brought back to itself within - the last fifty years ...
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... speak of language , they take it for granted that lan- guage is a human invention , that words are artificial signs , and that the varieties of human speech arose from different nations agreeing on different sounds as the most ...
... speak of language , they take it for granted that lan- guage is a human invention , that words are artificial signs , and that the varieties of human speech arose from different nations agreeing on different sounds as the most ...
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... speaking is the work of Him who has so framed our nature ; but the invention of words for naming each object is the work of our mind . " See Ladevi - Roche , De l'Origine du Langage : Bordeaux , 1860 , p . 14. Also , Horne Tooke ...
... speaking is the work of Him who has so framed our nature ; but the invention of words for naming each object is the work of our mind . " See Ladevi - Roche , De l'Origine du Langage : Bordeaux , 1860 , p . 14. Also , Horne Tooke ...
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... speak of a history of art . We can connect two periods separated by thousands of through the works of those who handed on the tradi- tions of art from century to century ; but we shall never meet with that continuous and unconscious ...
... speak of a history of art . We can connect two periods separated by thousands of through the works of those who handed on the tradi- tions of art from century to century ; but we shall never meet with that continuous and unconscious ...
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