Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... earth , its flowers and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which thanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries B L THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE . VOL ...
... earth , its flowers and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which thanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries B L THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE . VOL ...
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... earth , its flowers and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which - thanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries -has been reached in astronomy ...
... earth , its flowers and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which - thanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries -has been reached in astronomy ...
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... earth , and of the faunas and floras pre- sent or absent in each , nothing is so instructive as the minute exploration of a quarry close at hand , of a cave or a mine , in order to see things with our own eyes , to handle them , and to ...
... earth , and of the faunas and floras pre- sent or absent in each , nothing is so instructive as the minute exploration of a quarry close at hand , of a cave or a mine , in order to see things with our own eyes , to handle them , and to ...
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... to discover Sanskrit in the Malay dialects , or Greek in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth is not made of lias , swarming with Ammonites and PHONETIC LAWS . Plesiosauri , nor is all language made.
... to discover Sanskrit in the Malay dialects , or Greek in the idioms of the Cau- casian mountaineers . The whole crust of the earth is not made of lias , swarming with Ammonites and PHONETIC LAWS . Plesiosauri , nor is all language made.
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... earth . But , nevertheless , it can tell us a great deal . By displaying the minute laws that regulate the changes of each consonant , each vowel , each accent , it disciplines the student , and teaches him respect for every jot and ...
... earth . But , nevertheless , it can tell us a great deal . By displaying the minute laws that regulate the changes of each consonant , each vowel , each accent , it disciplines the student , and teaches him respect for every jot and ...
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