Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 2British Academy, 1976 - Humanities |
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... languages before they left the Continent , and that accordingly we might expect to find in ancient Gaul and contiguous countries traces of a language nearly akin to Goidelic . Accordingly , as far back as 1891 I read to the Philological ...
... languages before they left the Continent , and that accordingly we might expect to find in ancient Gaul and contiguous countries traces of a language nearly akin to Goidelic . Accordingly , as far back as 1891 I read to the Philological ...
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... language , and language has been an ever- advancing construction , from the first moment when men turned their attention to their own vocal utterances , as a means of fixing their own ideas or communicating them to others . It has grown ...
... language , and language has been an ever- advancing construction , from the first moment when men turned their attention to their own vocal utterances , as a means of fixing their own ideas or communicating them to others . It has grown ...
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... language cannot alone communicate to the reader or hearer of it the sensations or the emotional feelings which it describes , with anything like the vividness or the certainty with which it communicates the ideas or the thoughts ...
... language cannot alone communicate to the reader or hearer of it the sensations or the emotional feelings which it describes , with anything like the vividness or the certainty with which it communicates the ideas or the thoughts ...
Contents
ERNST CURTIUS BY THOMAS HODGKIN FELLOW OF THE ACADEMY | 1 |
NEUTRAL DUTIES IN A MARITIME WAR AS ILLUSTRATED BY RECENT | 1 |
CELTAE AND GALLI BY JOHN RHYS FELLOW OF THE ACADEMY Read | 1 |
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