Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, & June 1861, Volume 1 |
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... Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impressions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the original language of ...
... Aryan family of speech ; if we see how Hebrew , Arabic , and Syriac , with several minor dialects , are but different impressions of one and the same common type , and must all have flowed from the same source , the original language of ...
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... Aryan names for two , dvi , and ten , daśati . Such is the virulence of this phonetic change , that it will some- times eat away the whole body of a word , and leave nothing behind but decayed fragments . Thus , sister , which in ...
... Aryan names for two , dvi , and ten , daśati . Such is the virulence of this phonetic change , that it will some- times eat away the whole body of a word , and leave nothing behind but decayed fragments . Thus , sister , which in ...
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... Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the dialect of Latium , in Latium the dialect of Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was fixed by Livius Andronicus , Ennius , Nævius , Cato , and Lucretius , polished by the Scipios ...
... Aryan inhabitants of Italy . It was the dialect of Latium , in Latium the dialect of Rome , at Rome the dialect of the patricians . It was fixed by Livius Andronicus , Ennius , Nævius , Cato , and Lucretius , polished by the Scipios ...
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... Aryan family of speech . In the English dictionary the student of the science of language can detect , by his own tests , Celtic , Norman , Greek , and Latin ingredients , but not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the ...
... Aryan family of speech . In the English dictionary the student of the science of language can detect , by his own tests , Celtic , Norman , Greek , and Latin ingredients , but not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the ...
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... Aryan civilisation of Persia , reinvigorated by the Sassanian princes , reacted powerfully , though more silently , on the primitive nomadism of Arabia 50. The Koran itself is not free from Persian expressions , and it contains even a ...
... Aryan civilisation of Persia , reinvigorated by the Sassanian princes , reacted powerfully , though more silently , on the primitive nomadism of Arabia 50. The Koran itself is not free from Persian expressions , and it contains even a ...
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Page 28 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.