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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... grammar . So are the Wallachian súntemu , we are , súnteti , you are , which owe their origin to the third person plural súnt , they are . And what shall we say of such monsters as 7 essendo , a gerund derived on principles of strict ...
... grammar . So are the Wallachian súntemu , we are , súnteti , you are , which owe their origin to the third person plural súnt , they are . And what shall we say of such monsters as 7 essendo , a gerund derived on principles of strict ...
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... grammar , has been growing up wild , among wild tribes , without a literature , oral or written , in poetry or in prose ; or whether it has received the cul- tivation of poets , priests , and orators , and retained the 78 CONNECTION ...
... grammar , has been growing up wild , among wild tribes , without a literature , oral or written , in poetry or in prose ; or whether it has received the cul- tivation of poets , priests , and orators , and retained the 78 CONNECTION ...
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... grammar . Without the help of history , we should see that English is Teutonic , that like Dutch and Friesian it belongs to the Low- German branch ; that this branch , together with the High - German , Gothic , and Scandinavian branches ...
... grammar . Without the help of history , we should see that English is Teutonic , that like Dutch and Friesian it belongs to the Low- German branch ; that this branch , together with the High - German , Gothic , and Scandinavian branches ...
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... grammar , the blood and soul of the language , is as pure and unmixed in English as spoken in the British Isles , as it was when spoken on the shores of the German Ocean by the Angles , Saxons , and Juts of the continent . In thus ...
... grammar , the blood and soul of the language , is as pure and unmixed in English as spoken in the British Isles , as it was when spoken on the shores of the German Ocean by the Angles , Saxons , and Juts of the continent . In thus ...
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... grammar to be the most essential element , and therefore the ground of classification in all languages which have produced a definite grammatical articula- tion ; the second denies the possibility of a mixed language . These two axioms ...
... grammar to be the most essential element , and therefore the ground of classification in all languages which have produced a definite grammatical articula- tion ; the second denies the possibility of a mixed language . These two axioms ...
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