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 CutsLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 - 600 páginas |
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... similar language , and were not near so dark - coloured as slaves in general . This corroborates the statement of ancient authors , whose de- scription of a people inhabiting the interior regions of Northern Africa answers to that of ...
... similar language , and were not near so dark - coloured as slaves in general . This corroborates the statement of ancient authors , whose de- scription of a people inhabiting the interior regions of Northern Africa answers to that of ...
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... similar results may at present be expected from a deeper study of such primitive forms of language as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit , as followed , at the beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the compara ...
... similar results may at present be expected from a deeper study of such primitive forms of language as the Kafir and the Hottentot exhibit , as followed , at the beginning of the century , the discovery of Sanskrit , and the compara ...
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... similar sound in other words . Thus the name of one of the kings being Tu , not only was this word , which means " to stand , " changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable , though having no connection , except in ...
... similar sound in other words . Thus the name of one of the kings being Tu , not only was this word , which means " to stand , " changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable , though having no connection , except in ...
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... similar to one in the names of their nearest male relations . ' It is perfectly true that the words substituted are at first no more than family idioms— nay , that they would be confined to the gossip of women , and not enter into the ...
... similar to one in the names of their nearest male relations . ' It is perfectly true that the words substituted are at first no more than family idioms— nay , that they would be confined to the gossip of women , and not enter into the ...
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... similar seems to have taken place among some of the tribes of Greenland . † Yet even these isolated cases show how , among savage races , in a primitive state of society , language may be influenced by what we should call purely ...
... similar seems to have taken place among some of the tribes of Greenland . † Yet even these isolated cases show how , among savage races , in a primitive state of society , language may be influenced by what we should call purely ...
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