Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... present call the cuneiform inscriptions A thoroughly scholar - like answer to the late Sir G. C. Lewis's attacks on Champollion and other decipherers of ancient inscriptions may be seen in an article by Professor Le Page Renouf , ' Sir ...
... present call the cuneiform inscriptions A thoroughly scholar - like answer to the late Sir G. C. Lewis's attacks on Champollion and other decipherers of ancient inscriptions may be seen in an article by Professor Le Page Renouf , ' Sir ...
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... present I only refer to it to show how , in all quarters of the globe , and from sources where it would least be expected , new materials are forth- coming that would give employment to a much larger class of labourers than the Science ...
... present I only refer to it to show how , in all quarters of the globe , and from sources where it would least be expected , new materials are forth- coming that would give employment to a much larger class of labourers than the Science ...
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... present moment whether an ammonite be a work of nature and a flinthead a work of art . It is different in the Science of Language . There , the controversies about the great problems have not yet subsided . The questions whether ...
... present moment whether an ammonite be a work of nature and a flinthead a work of art . It is different in the Science of Language . There , the controversies about the great problems have not yet subsided . The questions whether ...
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... present course of lectures , to fill in greater detail the outlines of that map . Materials for this are abundant and steadily increasing . The works of Hervas , Adelung , Klaproth , Balbi , Prichard , and Latham , will show you how ...
... present course of lectures , to fill in greater detail the outlines of that map . Materials for this are abundant and steadily increasing . The works of Hervas , Adelung , Klaproth , Balbi , Prichard , and Latham , will show you how ...
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... present moment there are still many persons who cannot realise the fact that , at a very remote , but a very real period in the history of the world , the ancestors of the Home- ric poets and of the poets of the Veda must have lived ...
... present moment there are still many persons who cannot realise the fact that , at a very remote , but a very real period in the history of the world , the ancestors of the Home- ric poets and of the poets of the Veda must have lived ...
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