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" But in the evershifting state of a nomadic society no debased coin can be tolerated in language, no obscure legend accepted on trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct ; that the one may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least... "
Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Page 306
by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1882
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Suggestions for the Assistance of Officers in Learning the Languages of the ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Altaic languages - 1854 - 160 pages
...law, preserve the comprehensibity of these veterans, and make us feel unwilling to part with them. But in the evershifting state of a Nomadic society no...trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct; that the one may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognized as a well-known...
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Suggestions for the Assistance of Officers in Learning the Languages of the ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Altaic languages - 1854 - 162 pages
...comprehensibity of these veterans, and make us feel unwilling to part with them. But in the evershiftiug state of a Nomadic society no debased coin can be...trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct; that the oue may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognized as a well-known...
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The Languages of the Seat of War in the East: With a Survey of the Three ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Altaic languages - 1855 - 268 pages
...preserve the comprehensibility of these veterans, and make us feel unwilling to part with them. But in the evershifting state of a Nomadic society no...trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct; that the one may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognized as a well-known...
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Lectures on the Science of Language, Delivered at the Royal Institution of ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1861 - 420 pages
...custom, and law preserve the life of these veterans, and make us feel unwilling to part with them. But in the evershifting state of a nomadic society no...trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct ; that the one may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognised as a well-known...
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Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...custom, and law preserve the life of these veterans, and make us feel unwilling to part with them. But in the ever-shifting state of a nomadic society no...trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct ; that the one may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognized as a well-known...
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Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volumes 1-2

American Philological Association - Philology - 1871 - 456 pages
...when the key is once found the word-puzzle may be taken in pieces as easily as it was put together. Indeed, it is a requirement of the Indian languages...trust. The metal must be pure and the legend distinct.* The more cumbrous and unwieldy the structure, the greater is the necessity for exact adjustment of...
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Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volumes 1-5

American Philological Association - Philology - 1871 - 806 pages
...its significant elements by the hearer. It must be thoroughly self -defining , for (as Max Hiiller has expressed it) " it requires tradition, society,...trust. The metal must be pure and the legend distinct.* The more cumbrous and unwieldy the structure, the greater is the necessity for exact adjustment of...
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Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages: With Words, Phrases and ...

John Wesley Powell, Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - Indians - 1880 - 286 pages
...to its significant elements by the hearer. It must be thoroughly setf-defining, for (as Max Müller has expressed it) "it requires tradition, society,...trust. The metal must be pure and the legend distinct.* The more cumbrous and unwieldy the structure, the greater is the necessity for exact' adjustment of...
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The Russian Revolt: Its Causes, Condition, and Prospects

Edmund Noble - Nihilism - 1885 - 298 pages
...their intercourse be but scanty. It requires traditions, society, and literature to maintain forms which can no longer be analyzed at once. ... In the...trust. The metal must be pure and the legend distinct, that the one may be weighed and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognized .as a wellknown guarantee....
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The Science of Language: Founded on Lectures Delivered at the ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 636 pages
...the life of these veterans, and make us feel unwilling to part with them. But in the ever -shifting state of a nomadic society no debased coin can be...trust. The metal must be pure, and the legend distinct ; that the one may be weighed, and the other, if not deciphered, at least recognised as a well-known...
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