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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... common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in ...
... common origin of languages and races , in order to justify , by scientific arguments , the unhallowed theory of slavery . Never do I remember to have seen science more degraded than on the title - page of an American publication in ...
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... common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no animal has been discovered in the 10 ' Man has two faculties , or two passive powers ...
... common with beasts , are bound to confess that as yet no race of animals has produced a language . Lord Monboddo , for instance , admits that as yet no animal has been discovered in the 10 ' Man has two faculties , or two passive powers ...
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... common consent , dis- tinguishes man from all other living beings ; if it establishes a frontier between man and the brute , which can never be removed , it would seem to pos- sess at the present moment peculiar claims on the attention ...
... common consent , dis- tinguishes man from all other living beings ; if it establishes a frontier between man and the brute , which can never be removed , it would seem to pos- sess at the present moment peculiar claims on the attention ...
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... common to many and offers those essential points on which groups or natural classes may be esta- blished . These classes again , in their more general features , are mutually compared ; new points of difference , or of similarity of a ...
... common to many and offers those essential points on which groups or natural classes may be esta- blished . These classes again , in their more general features , are mutually compared ; new points of difference , or of similarity of a ...
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... common with philology in the usual meaning of the word . Philology , whether classical or oriental , whether treating of ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated ...
... common with philology in the usual meaning of the word . Philology , whether classical or oriental , whether treating of ancient or modern , of cultivated or barbarous languages , is an historical science . Language is here treated ...
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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.