Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements ...
... spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements ...
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... spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements ...
... spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of human life and human thought , supply materials capable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify them , we can reduce them to their constituent elements ...
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... spoken in the Six Northern Counties of England , or Ancient Northumbria , and on the Variations in their Grammar from that of Standard English , ' has lately been published by Mr. R. P. Peacock , Berlin , 1863. It is chiefly based on ...
... spoken in the Six Northern Counties of England , or Ancient Northumbria , and on the Variations in their Grammar from that of Standard English , ' has lately been published by Mr. R. P. Peacock , Berlin , 1863. It is chiefly based on ...
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... spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , America , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left for him to conquer . There is another charm peculiar to ...
... spoken by the nomad tribes of Asia , Africa , America , and the islands of the Pacific , no scholar need be afraid for some generations to come that there will be no language left for him to conquer . There is another charm peculiar to ...
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... spoken of as an offshoot of the Sandwich Islands , mere ridicule would be a very in- appropriate and very inefficient answer to such a theory . It is not very long ago that all the Greek The Polynesian : Honolulu , Sept. 27 , Oct. 4 ...
... spoken of as an offshoot of the Sandwich Islands , mere ridicule would be a very in- appropriate and very inefficient answer to such a theory . It is not very long ago that all the Greek The Polynesian : Honolulu , Sept. 27 , Oct. 4 ...
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