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... kind to be treated ? However startling and paradoxical in appearance , they must be examined before we can either accept or reject them . Science , ' as Bunsen 10 said , ' excludes no suppositions , however strange they may appear ...
... kind to be treated ? However startling and paradoxical in appearance , they must be examined before we can either accept or reject them . Science , ' as Bunsen 10 said , ' excludes no suppositions , however strange they may appear ...
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... kind of likeness , and who would fain confine the whole ocean of living speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as he is a - going , I am a - coming , & c ...
... kind of likeness , and who would fain confine the whole ocean of living speech within the narrow bars of Aryan or Semitic grammar . We have not very far to go in order to hear such phrases as he is a - going , I am a - coming , & c ...
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... kind of evidence . No doubt the evidence on which the relationship of French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithuanian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been esta- blished , is the most satisfactory ; but such evidence is ...
... kind of evidence . No doubt the evidence on which the relationship of French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithuanian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been esta- blished , is the most satisfactory ; but such evidence is ...
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... kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature of the things which they signified ; this would yet be a farther advantage superadded , by which , besides the best way of ...
... kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature of the things which they signified ; this would yet be a farther advantage superadded , by which , besides the best way of ...
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... such as kind , cause , condition , & c . * Marsh , History of the English Laguage , p . 211 ; Liebig , Chemische Briefe , 4th edit . i . p . 96 . By subdividing these six classes , the Bishop arrives in BISHOP WILKINS . 55.
... such as kind , cause , condition , & c . * Marsh , History of the English Laguage , p . 211 ; Liebig , Chemische Briefe , 4th edit . i . p . 96 . By subdividing these six classes , the Bishop arrives in BISHOP WILKINS . 55.
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