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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... Latin name for the Pleiades is Vergilia , from virga , a sprout or twig . This name was given to them by the Italian husbandmen , because in Italy , where they became visible about May , they marked the return of summer . Another ...
... Latin name for the Pleiades is Vergilia , from virga , a sprout or twig . This name was given to them by the Italian husbandmen , because in Italy , where they became visible about May , they marked the return of summer . Another ...
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... Latin was changed into Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Provençal , French , Walachian , and Roumansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic lan- guages , together likewise with the ancient ...
... Latin was changed into Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Provençal , French , Walachian , and Roumansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , the Celtic , the Teutonic , and Slavonic lan- guages , together likewise with the ancient ...
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... Latin , or , if it were not , it would soon be Marcellus , more of a grammarian than a cour- tier , replied , Capito is a liar ; for , Cæsar , thou canst give the Roman citizenship to men , but not to words . ' A similar anecdote is ...
... Latin , or , if it were not , it would soon be Marcellus , more of a grammarian than a cour- tier , replied , Capito is a liar ; for , Cæsar , thou canst give the Roman citizenship to men , but not to words . ' A similar anecdote is ...
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... Latin , or in Sanskrit ? We do not say two - ten in English , nor duo - decem in Latin , nor dvi - dasa in Sanskrit . We find in Sanskrit Greek vinsati eikati Latin English viginti twenty . Now here we see , first , that the Sanskrit ...
... Latin , or in Sanskrit ? We do not say two - ten in English , nor duo - decem in Latin , nor dvi - dasa in Sanskrit . We find in Sanskrit Greek vinsati eikati Latin English viginti twenty . Now here we see , first , that the Sanskrit ...
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... Latin viginti and of the Sanskrit vinsati contains the same number , which from dvi has been reduced to vi . This is not very extraordinary ; for the Latin bis , twice , stands likewise for an original dvis , and that corresponds to the ...
... Latin viginti and of the Sanskrit vinsati contains the same number , which from dvi has been reduced to vi . This is not very extraordinary ; for the Latin bis , twice , stands likewise for an original dvis , and that corresponds to the ...
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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.