The British Quarterly Review, Volume 36Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1862 - Christianity |
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... language to a historical science . They do not make it like the science of legislation , whose principles are subject to the will of a conqueror or the votes of a parliament . The alterations of a language resemble those of a tree in ...
... language to a historical science . They do not make it like the science of legislation , whose principles are subject to the will of a conqueror or the votes of a parliament . The alterations of a language resemble those of a tree in ...
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... language which he speaks ; and the changes which the latter undergoes form no valid objection to its being classed with the physical sciences . In the second Lecture , two great modifications are noticed to which languages are ...
... language which he speaks ; and the changes which the latter undergoes form no valid objection to its being classed with the physical sciences . In the second Lecture , two great modifications are noticed to which languages are ...
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... language . Similar changes carried out through all words make distinct languages by the influence of decay alone . In Latin the above word appears as fert . Here two vowels have been lost and one weakened , whilst the whole word is ...
... language . Similar changes carried out through all words make distinct languages by the influence of decay alone . In Latin the above word appears as fert . Here two vowels have been lost and one weakened , whilst the whole word is ...
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... language . The relative value of national and pro- vincial languages , of written and unwritten dialects , has been much misunderstood . The real and natural life of language is in its dialects ; and in spite of the tyranny exercised by ...
... language . The relative value of national and pro- vincial languages , of written and unwritten dialects , has been much misunderstood . The real and natural life of language is in its dialects ; and in spite of the tyranny exercised by ...
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... language in the course of one generation . We have seen how subservient grammatical forms are to the very life and energy of certain languages . But whence come grammars ? They are not coeval with speech . They are of comparatively late ...
... language in the course of one generation . We have seen how subservient grammatical forms are to the very life and energy of certain languages . But whence come grammars ? They are not coeval with speech . They are of comparatively late ...
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