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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... beginning of our century , and it is scarcely received as yet on a footing of equality by the elder branches of learning . Its very name is still unset- tled , and the various titles that have been given to it in England , France , and ...
... beginning of our century , and it is scarcely received as yet on a footing of equality by the elder branches of learning . Its very name is still unset- tled , and the various titles that have been given to it in England , France , and ...
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... beginning , when a new surface had been formed for the growth of a new civilisation . The succession , however , of these three stages is no doubt the natural one , and it is very properly observed in the study of every science . The ...
... beginning , when a new surface had been formed for the growth of a new civilisation . The succession , however , of these three stages is no doubt the natural one , and it is very properly observed in the study of every science . The ...
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... beginning of our century may seem sur- prising , more surprising even than the indifference with which former generations treated the lessons which even the stones seemed to teach of the life still throbbing in the veins and on the very ...
... beginning of our century may seem sur- prising , more surprising even than the indifference with which former generations treated the lessons which even the stones seemed to teach of the life still throbbing in the veins and on the very ...
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... beginning of our inquiry into the nature of language , to enter upon a minute examina- tion of a theory which represents language as a work of human art , and as established by mutual agree- ment as a medium of communication . While ...
... beginning of our inquiry into the nature of language , to enter upon a minute examina- tion of a theory which represents language as a work of human art , and as established by mutual agree- ment as a medium of communication . While ...
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... beginning . Animals which are endowed with what is called an artistic instinct , have never brought that instinct to a higher degree of perfection . The hexagonal cells of the bee are not more regular in the nineteenth century than at ...
... beginning . Animals which are endowed with what is called an artistic instinct , have never brought that instinct to a higher degree of perfection . The hexagonal cells of the bee are not more regular in the nineteenth century than at ...
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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.