Families of Speech: Four Lectures Delivered Before the Royal Institution of Great Britain in March, 1869Longmans, Green and Company, 1870 - 192 páginas |
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... interests among man- kind , p . 1. Low condition of savage races , 2. Semi - civilised races- EGYPTIANS and CHINESE , 3. The two civilised races , 4. Two kinds of ignorance , 5. Marvel of the faculty of speech , 6. Difficult pro- blem ...
... interests among man- kind , p . 1. Low condition of savage races , 2. Semi - civilised races- EGYPTIANS and CHINESE , 3. The two civilised races , 4. Two kinds of ignorance , 5. Marvel of the faculty of speech , 6. Difficult pro- blem ...
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... interest both the mechanism of speech and those regular permutations of letters in different linguistic families , from which , by an immense induction , Jacob Grimm established the famous law which is * De Augmentis Scientiarum , vi ...
... interest both the mechanism of speech and those regular permutations of letters in different linguistic families , from which , by an immense induction , Jacob Grimm established the famous law which is * De Augmentis Scientiarum , vi ...
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... interest . Why , he asked , should we commence with the unknown instead of the known ? We ought obviously to begin with the modern lan- guages which are close at hand , in order to compare them together , to note their affinities and ...
... interest . Why , he asked , should we commence with the unknown instead of the known ? We ought obviously to begin with the modern lan- guages which are close at hand , in order to compare them together , to note their affinities and ...
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... interest . She had a number of test words in Latin , French , German , and Russian distributed among scholars , ambassadors , travellers , & c . , to be rendered into as many languages as possible . The result was the publication of a ...
... interest . She had a number of test words in Latin , French , German , and Russian distributed among scholars , ambassadors , travellers , & c . , to be rendered into as many languages as possible . The result was the publication of a ...
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... interest in the subject , and to give currency to a few ingenious generalisations . They were , as Prof. Max Müller † observes , the separate mole- cules floating about without cohesion , awaiting for their regular crystallisation the ...
... interest in the subject , and to give currency to a few ingenious generalisations . They were , as Prof. Max Müller † observes , the separate mole- cules floating about without cohesion , awaiting for their regular crystallisation the ...
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