The Discovery of the Science of Languages: In which are Shown the Real Nature of the Parts of Speech, the Meaning which All Words Carry in Themselves, as Their Own Definitions, and the Origin of Words, Letters, Figures, Etc, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 |
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... , are , with very few exceptions , ever natives of the land to which they belong ; and the learned ought to reflect seriously before they assert that a word ever known to exist with a people , was borrowed from B 2 SCIENCE OF LANGUAGES . 3.
... , are , with very few exceptions , ever natives of the land to which they belong ; and the learned ought to reflect seriously before they assert that a word ever known to exist with a people , was borrowed from B 2 SCIENCE OF LANGUAGES . 3.
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... learned ( there is not a single exception to be found ) say that the French words main and pied have been borrowed from the Latin language ; that is , from manus and pes ; which is not only an error , but an egregious blunder ; for it ...
... learned ( there is not a single exception to be found ) say that the French words main and pied have been borrowed from the Latin language ; that is , from manus and pes ; which is not only an error , but an egregious blunder ; for it ...
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... learned in the art of analysing as myself , may tell me , that the word fox makes fo - ic is , " false it is ; " and this is very true ; and fox has not only this idea of falsehood singly in its meaning , but doubly ; for X is equal to ...
... learned in the art of analysing as myself , may tell me , that the word fox makes fo - ic is , " false it is ; " and this is very true ; and fox has not only this idea of falsehood singly in its meaning , but doubly ; for X is equal to ...
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... learned knowledge of the alphabet . From this I am led to conclude that one part of the world must have attained a high degree of civilisa- tion , while all the rest of mankind were in so bar- barous a state as to have no rational ...
... learned knowledge of the alphabet . From this I am led to conclude that one part of the world must have attained a high degree of civilisa- tion , while all the rest of mankind were in so bar- barous a state as to have no rational ...
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... learned authorities to prove that of the science of grammar nothing whatever has been hitherto known ; and it was most requisite that I should then do so , as the contrary opinion with regard to our knowledge of this science , has till ...
... learned authorities to prove that of the science of grammar nothing whatever has been hitherto known ; and it was most requisite that I should then do so , as the contrary opinion with regard to our knowledge of this science , has till ...
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affirmative Aleph allow Alpha already seen already shown ancient animal appear bad meaning beginning belonging character composed consequently contraction correct Cybele discovery Divinity earth easily conceived English word epsilon equal to iv eternity etois être evident existence fallen father follows French language French pronoun French word frequently gamma ginally give glish God's son Greek alphabet Greek language Greek word half head Hence ic iv idea implies instance is-i iv-er knowledge lambda Latin Latin word latter word least difference literally means livre lysed lysis means double meant mind negative observation perceive plural number preceded precisely equal present pronoun prove quently racter reader remark Saxon sequently signify single soul sound stands in apposition syllable synonymous three letters three words truth whilst whole womb word becomes word for three word in Greek words mean written
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Page 117 - ... some form of contingent knowledge. In all the axioms, for example, the subject represents a contingent and the predicate a necessary truth, the former implying the latter. Thus we have the axioms, Body implies space, Succession implies time, Phenomena imply substance, Events imply a cause, and Things equal to the same thing must be equal to one another. Now the implied cannot, by any possibility, be incompatible with, but must be explicative of, that by which the former is implied. Here we have...
Page 85 - Each line of said poem, formed by a composed word, is the name of one of the letters of the Greek alphabet, rearranged, as we have it, four hundred and three years before the Christian era, under the archonship of Euclydes.
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