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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Page 39
... person singular in th is now entirely replaced by s . No one now says he liveth , but only he lives . Several of the irregular imperfects and participles have assumed a new form . No one now uses he spake , and he drave , instead of he ...
... person singular in th is now entirely replaced by s . No one now says he liveth , but only he lives . Several of the irregular imperfects and participles have assumed a new form . No one now uses he spake , and he drave , instead of he ...
Page 60
... persons of the verb , that characteristic feature of Turanian speech had lately broken out in the spoken dialects of the Buriates and in the Tun- gusic idioms near Njertschinsk in Siberia . One more observation of the same character ...
... persons of the verb , that characteristic feature of Turanian speech had lately broken out in the spoken dialects of the Buriates and in the Tun- gusic idioms near Njertschinsk in Siberia . One more observation of the same character ...
Page 67
... persons here present who could tell the exact meaning of a horse's poll , crest , withers , dock , ham- string , cannon , pastern , coronet , arm , jowl , and muzzle . Where the literary language speaks of the young of all sorts of ...
... persons here present who could tell the exact meaning of a horse's poll , crest , withers , dock , ham- string , cannon , pastern , coronet , arm , jowl , and muzzle . Where the literary language speaks of the young of all sorts of ...
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... person , you are , ought to have been , at least accord- ing to the strict logic of children , sutis . This , no doubt , sounds very barbarous to a classical ear accustomed to estis . And we see how French , for instance , has strictly ...
... person , you are , ought to have been , at least accord- ing to the strict logic of children , sutis . This , no doubt , sounds very barbarous to a classical ear accustomed to estis . And we see how French , for instance , has strictly ...
Page 72
... person plural , sind , has by a false analogy been transferred to the first and second persons , and has taken a new termination on , which properly belongs to the plural of the imperfect . In the Old Northumbrian dialect the first person ...
... person plural , sind , has by a false analogy been transferred to the first and second persons , and has taken a new termination on , which properly belongs to the plural of the imperfect . In the Old Northumbrian dialect the first person ...
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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.