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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... ideas multiplied that could no longer be pointed at with the fingers , " they found it necessary to invent artificial signs of which the meaning was 1 Gen. ii . 19 . 2 St. Basil was accused by Eunomius of denying Divine Providence , be ...
... ideas multiplied that could no longer be pointed at with the fingers , " they found it necessary to invent artificial signs of which the meaning was 1 Gen. ii . 19 . 2 St. Basil was accused by Eunomius of denying Divine Providence , be ...
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... idea that language can be changed and im- proved by man is by no means a new one . We know that Protagoras , an ancient Greek philosopher , after laying down some laws on gender , actually began to find fault with the text of Homer ...
... idea that language can be changed and im- proved by man is by no means a new one . We know that Protagoras , an ancient Greek philosopher , after laying down some laws on gender , actually began to find fault with the text of Homer ...
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... ideas can they connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be illustrated by this comparison , and this is that neither language nor the tree can exist or grow by itself ...
... ideas can they connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be illustrated by this comparison , and this is that neither language nor the tree can exist or grow by itself ...
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... idea of the unbounded re- sources of dialects . When literary languages have stereotyped one general term , their dialects will supply 1 fifty , though each with its own special shade of mean- ing . If new combinations of thought are ...
... idea of the unbounded re- sources of dialects . When literary languages have stereotyped one general term , their dialects will supply 1 fifty , though each with its own special shade of mean- ing . If new combinations of thought are ...
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... idea of reduc ing a whole language to a small number of roots , which in Europe was not attempted before the six- teenth century by Henry Estienne , 2 was perfectly familiar to the Brahmans , at least 500 B. C. The Greeks , though they ...
... idea of reduc ing a whole language to a small number of roots , which in Europe was not attempted before the six- teenth century by Henry Estienne , 2 was perfectly familiar to the Brahmans , at least 500 B. C. The Greeks , though they ...
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