Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... applied to the analysis of ancient languages , stand before us as real and undeniable facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning against too rapid generalisa ...
... applied to the analysis of ancient languages , stand before us as real and undeniable facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning against too rapid generalisa ...
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... applied to the analysis of lan- guages which decidedly belong to a different family of speech ? Let us take the Bask , which is certainly neither Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than ...
... applied to the analysis of lan- guages which decidedly belong to a different family of speech ? Let us take the Bask , which is certainly neither Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than ...
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... applied to rock - crystal , quartz , and flint . In like manner , from a similar misapplication of salt , in scientific use , chemists class the substance of which junk - bottles , French mirrors , windows , and opera glasses are made ...
... applied to rock - crystal , quartz , and flint . In like manner , from a similar misapplication of salt , in scientific use , chemists class the substance of which junk - bottles , French mirrors , windows , and opera glasses are made ...
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... applied to wheat ( which is called godhûma , the smoke or incense of the earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and weeds , and as a compound ( svetasunga , white- awned ) , it entered into the name of barley . In Sanskrit ...
... applied to wheat ( which is called godhûma , the smoke or incense of the earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and weeds , and as a compound ( svetasunga , white- awned ) , it entered into the name of barley . In Sanskrit ...
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... applied to the stand- ing - place of animals , to stalls or sheds . That on which a thing stands or rests is called its base , and basis in Greek meant originally no more than going , the base being conceived as ground on which it is ...
... applied to the stand- ing - place of animals , to stalls or sheds . That on which a thing stands or rests is called its base , and basis in Greek meant originally no more than going , the base being conceived as ground on which it is ...
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