Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 2C. Scribner, 1869 |
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Page 48
... speaking a totally different language from the men , cannot be used in confirmation of this view . Caribe women , for instance , in the Antille Islands , 1 spoke a language different from that of their hus- bands , because the Caribes ...
... speaking a totally different language from the men , cannot be used in confirmation of this view . Caribe women , for instance , in the Antille Islands , 1 spoke a language different from that of their hus- bands , because the Caribes ...
Page 54
... speak of the sound as the outside , of the ideas as the inside of language ; and no objection could be raised to our treating each of them separately . Why it is impossible to conceive of living human language as having originated in a ...
... speak of the sound as the outside , of the ideas as the inside of language ; and no objection could be raised to our treating each of them separately . Why it is impossible to conceive of living human language as having originated in a ...
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... speaking different languages , and which , though dif- ferently pronounced in different parts of the world , convey everywhere the same idea . We have besides such signs as + plus , minus , X to be multiplied , ÷ to be divided , = equal ...
... speaking different languages , and which , though dif- ferently pronounced in different parts of the world , convey everywhere the same idea . We have besides such signs as + plus , minus , X to be multiplied , ÷ to be divided , = equal ...
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... speak dif- ferent languages , and to be read without , as yet , being pronounced at all . It were to be wished , he says , that characters could be found bearing some resemblance to the things expressed by them ; also , that the sounds ...
... speak dif- ferent languages , and to be read without , as yet , being pronounced at all . It were to be wished , he says , that characters could be found bearing some resemblance to the things expressed by them ; also , that the sounds ...
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... speaking , or meaning , but always in the sense of gathering , or , more properly , of telling , for to tell is the ... speak of them . • Locke , On the Understanding , iv . 17 , 9 . 4 This , too , is well put by Locke ( iii . 3 , 20 ) ...
... speaking , or meaning , but always in the sense of gathering , or , more properly , of telling , for to tell is the ... speak of them . • Locke , On the Understanding , iv . 17 , 9 . 4 This , too , is well put by Locke ( iii . 3 , 20 ) ...
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