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... vernacular terms in Roman characters I have followed the received mode of spelling ; d , t , in italics , repre- sent the hard cerebral sounds of those letters which have only one representative with us , as opposed to their soft dental ...
... vernacular terms in Roman characters I have followed the received mode of spelling ; d , t , in italics , repre- sent the hard cerebral sounds of those letters which have only one representative with us , as opposed to their soft dental ...
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... vernacular languages are . It is assumed by the former that the English language is a perfect and singly sufficient organ , whilst the native languages are equally objectionable from their plurality and their intrinsic feebleness ...
... vernacular languages are . It is assumed by the former that the English language is a perfect and singly sufficient organ , whilst the native languages are equally objectionable from their plurality and their intrinsic feebleness ...
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... vernacular language which is common to all Hindoos and all rural Moslems ; that Hindee possesses books which in point of language exhibit very consider- able actual and latent power ; that the latter may be educed and extended to any ...
... vernacular language which is common to all Hindoos and all rural Moslems ; that Hindee possesses books which in point of language exhibit very consider- able actual and latent power ; that the latter may be educed and extended to any ...
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... vernacular euphony , whence arises a great part of that difficulty in respect to the introduction of a more copious and precise phraseology into English , which as we have seen , Malthus deemed it impossible to conquer ; and Mackintosh ...
... vernacular euphony , whence arises a great part of that difficulty in respect to the introduction of a more copious and precise phraseology into English , which as we have seen , Malthus deemed it impossible to conquer ; and Mackintosh ...
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... vernacular organ was free from such damning liabilities , the latter was preferred upon this prepon- derant ground of preference ! In reference to the question as it occurred in England in the beginning of the 16th century , no scheme ...
... vernacular organ was free from such damning liabilities , the latter was preferred upon this prepon- derant ground of preference ! In reference to the question as it occurred in England in the beginning of the 16th century , no scheme ...
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