Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... beginnings , whether they can be classified in families , or no , are constantly starting up ; and scholars , even while engaged in the most minute inquiries - while carrying brick and mortar to build the walls of their new science ...
... beginnings , whether they can be classified in families , or no , are constantly starting up ; and scholars , even while engaged in the most minute inquiries - while carrying brick and mortar to build the walls of their new science ...
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... beginning ; if man is at once the mystery and the key of natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then ethnological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are ...
... beginning ; if man is at once the mystery and the key of natural science ; if that is the only view of natural science worthy of our age , then ethnological philology , once established on principles as clear as the physiological are ...
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... beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the compara- tive researches of Oriental scholars . The origin of the grammatical forms , of gender and number , the etymology of pronouns , and many other questions of the ...
... beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the compara- tive researches of Oriental scholars . The origin of the grammatical forms , of gender and number , the etymology of pronouns , and many other questions of the ...
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... beginning the mere expression of individual feeling , and therefore liable to much greater dialectic variation than gram- matical forms , properly so called . But let us take what we might call grammatical forms in Chinese , in order to ...
... beginning the mere expression of individual feeling , and therefore liable to much greater dialectic variation than gram- matical forms , properly so called . But let us take what we might call grammatical forms in Chinese , in order to ...
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... - abused , though indispensable , Sanskrit , I thought it necessary thus from the beginning to guard against the misapprehension that the study of Sanskrit and its cognate dialects could supply us with all 44 DIVISION OF LECTURES .
... - abused , though indispensable , Sanskrit , I thought it necessary thus from the beginning to guard against the misapprehension that the study of Sanskrit and its cognate dialects could supply us with all 44 DIVISION OF LECTURES .
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