Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April, & May, 1863 : Second Series : with Thirty-one Wood Cuts |
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... less success , during the last fifty years . That map was necessarily incomplete . It comprehended not much more than what in an atlas of the ancient world is called Orbis Veteribus Notus , ' where you distinguish names and boundaries ...
... less success , during the last fifty years . That map was necessarily incomplete . It comprehended not much more than what in an atlas of the ancient world is called Orbis Veteribus Notus , ' where you distinguish names and boundaries ...
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... less startling than this which would make the Polynesian the primi- tive language of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Lan- guages , printed at the Cape , written by a most learned and ingenious ...
... less startling than this which would make the Polynesian the primi- tive language of mankind . I received lately a Comparative Grammar of the South - African Lan- guages , printed at the Cape , written by a most learned and ingenious ...
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... less than forty or fifty of the most common words , which occur in conversation , had been entirely changed . It is not necessary that all the simple words which go to make up a compound name should be changed . The alteration of one is ...
... less than forty or fifty of the most common words , which occur in conversation , had been entirely changed . It is not necessary that all the simple words which go to make up a compound name should be changed . The alteration of one is ...
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... less occupied , or if young men of talent were by his side . A few eminent men might complete the work in five years , and within two years they might bring out the systems of ethics and meta- physics in the form of an incontrovertible ...
... less occupied , or if young men of talent were by his side . A few eminent men might complete the work in five years , and within two years they might bring out the systems of ethics and meta- physics in the form of an incontrovertible ...
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... less than a classification of all that is or can be known , and he makes this dictionary of notions the basis of a corresponding dictionary of signs , both written and spoken . All this is done with great circumspection , and if we ...
... less than a classification of all that is or can be known , and he makes this dictionary of notions the basis of a corresponding dictionary of signs , both written and spoken . All this is done with great circumspection , and if we ...
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