Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... represents the Persian language previous to Darius , and with the help of the later Persian , a most effective cross - fire was opened ; how even more powerful ordnance was brought up from the arsenal of the ancient Sanskrit ; how ...
... represents the Persian language previous to Darius , and with the help of the later Persian , a most effective cross - fire was opened ; how even more powerful ordnance was brought up from the arsenal of the ancient Sanskrit ; how ...
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... represented an original nde , we should really have the curious consonantal change from de to ing . It has also been objected with much plausibility , that the preposition a in a - going cannot be arbitrarily dropt before a case ...
... represented an original nde , we should really have the curious consonantal change from de to ing . It has also been objected with much plausibility , that the preposition a in a - going cannot be arbitrarily dropt before a case ...
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... represented ; and so , likewise , if the names of things could be so ordered as to contain such a kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature of the things which they ...
... represented ; and so , likewise , if the names of things could be so ordered as to contain such a kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature of the things which they ...
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... , which , together with the preceding classes , are represented in the following table , the skeleton , in fact , of the whole body of human knowledge . ( General ; namely , those universal notions , whether 58 BISHOP WILKINS .
... , which , together with the preceding classes , are represented in the following table , the skeleton , in fact , of the whole body of human knowledge . ( General ; namely , those universal notions , whether 58 BISHOP WILKINS .
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... represented by real characters . But besides a complete dic- tionary , a grammatical framework , too , is wanted before the problem of an artificial language can be considered as solved . In natural languages the gram- matical ...
... represented by real characters . But besides a complete dic- tionary , a grammatical framework , too , is wanted before the problem of an artificial language can be considered as solved . In natural languages the gram- matical ...
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