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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... 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 which , among the profiles of the ...
... 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 which , among the profiles of the ...
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... 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 , the existence of which is generally acknowledged : 1 ...
... 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 , the existence of which is generally acknowledged : 1 ...
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... race . In the same manner , if we study living languages , it is not for their own sake that we acquire grammars and vocabularies . We do so on account of their practical usefulness . We use them as letters of introduction to the best ...
... race . In the same manner , if we study living languages , it is not for their own sake that we acquire grammars and vocabularies . We do so on account of their practical usefulness . We use them as letters of introduction to the best ...
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... race , and still draws its life from the first utterances of the human mind - language , the living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross- examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose ...
... race , and still draws its life from the first utterances of the human mind - language , the living and speaking witness of the whole history of our race , was never cross- examined by the student of history , was never made to disclose ...
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... race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - established class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the Tungusic ...
... race ; and if we add to these two , the Aryan and Semitic , at least one more well - established class of languages , the Turanian , comprising the dialects of the nomad races scattered over Central and Northern Asia , the Tungusic ...
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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.