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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... nature or from interjections . There is , no doubt , a higher interest which leads the philosopher to inquire into the nature of these phonetic types , and tempts him to transcend the narrow limits of the purely positive science of ...
... nature or from interjections . There is , no doubt , a higher interest which leads the philosopher to inquire into the nature of these phonetic types , and tempts him to transcend the narrow limits of the purely positive science of ...
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... nature of human speech , which have been carried on during the last fifty years in England , France , and Germany , deserved a larger share of public sympathy than they had hitherto received ; nay , it seemed to me , as far as I could ...
... nature of human speech , which have been carried on during the last fifty years in England , France , and Germany , deserved a larger share of public sympathy than they had hitherto received ; nay , it seemed to me , as far as I could ...
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... nature , a work of human art , or a divine gift . But to whatever sphere it belongs , it would seem to stand unsurpassed - nay , unequalled in it — by anything else . If it be a produc- tion of nature , it is her last and crowning ...
... nature , a work of human art , or a divine gift . But to whatever sphere it belongs , it would seem to stand unsurpassed - nay , unequalled in it — by anything else . If it be a produc- tion of nature , it is her last and crowning ...
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... nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the practical results of their labours , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless they were in ...
... nature , or to the contemplation of the mysteries of the world of thought , without any side - glance at the practical results of their labours , no science and no art have long prospered and flourished among us , unless they were in ...
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... nature of language , and on the relation of words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities of the outer world on the other . Men were called heretics for believing that words such as justice or truth expressed only concep ...
... nature of language , and on the relation of words to our conceptions on one side , and to the realities of the outer world on the other . Men were called heretics for believing that words such as justice or truth expressed only concep ...
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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.