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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... spoken in China , and it is most nearly related to the spoken dialect of Canton . Yet few Chinese scholars would recognize Chinese in the language of Cochin - China . It is , for instance , one of the most characteristic features of the ...
... spoken in China , and it is most nearly related to the spoken dialect of Canton . Yet few Chinese scholars would recognize Chinese in the language of Cochin - China . It is , for instance , one of the most characteristic features of the ...
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... spoken on the same river within a distance of 200 or 300 miles . There are certain peculiarities in Indian habits which lead to a quick corruption of language and segrega- tion of dialects . When Indians , men or women , are conversing ...
... spoken on the same river within a distance of 200 or 300 miles . There are certain peculiarities in Indian habits which lead to a quick corruption of language and segrega- tion of dialects . When Indians , men or women , are conversing ...
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... spoken to the Marquis de L'Hôpital and others , of his Spécieuse Générale , without gaining from them more attention than if he had been telling them of a dream . He ought to be able , he adds , to support his theory by some pal- pable ...
... spoken to the Marquis de L'Hôpital and others , of his Spécieuse Générale , without gaining from them more attention than if he had been telling them of a dream . He ought to be able , he adds , to support his theory by some pal- pable ...
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... spoken so confidently , that he should actually have placed this Spécieuse Générale on a level with his differential calculus , if it had been a mere dream . It seems more likely that Leibniz was acquainted with a work which , in the ...
... spoken so confidently , that he should actually have placed this Spécieuse Générale on a level with his differential calculus , if it had been a mere dream . It seems more likely that Leibniz was acquainted with a work which , in the ...
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... spoken language , though he arrives at that in the end , but to contrive a system of writing or representing our thoughts that should be univer- sally intelligible . We have , for instance , our nu- merical figures , which are ...
... spoken language , though he arrives at that in the end , but to contrive a system of writing or representing our thoughts that should be univer- sally intelligible . We have , for instance , our nu- merical figures , which are ...
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