The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State: An Essay Towards Discovering the Origin and Course of Human Improvement, Том 1D. Appleton & Company, 1841 - 332 стор. |
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... language of gratitude , if warm , would sa- vour of adulation , and be rejected by you ; if cold , it would too closely resemble ingratitude to be adopted by me . I lay my work before you therefore with such silent and reverential ...
... language of gratitude , if warm , would sa- vour of adulation , and be rejected by you ; if cold , it would too closely resemble ingratitude to be adopted by me . I lay my work before you therefore with such silent and reverential ...
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... language ; not because he undervalues our authorized version , but because there is a suggestive sim- plicity in the Hebrew forms of speech which no translation could preserve , but which is of great value in pointing out fresh paths of ...
... language ; not because he undervalues our authorized version , but because there is a suggestive sim- plicity in the Hebrew forms of speech which no translation could preserve , but which is of great value in pointing out fresh paths of ...
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... languages are spoken . As language is the instrument of thought , the nature of a language is in some degree a guide to the in- tellectual condition of those by whom it is spoken . All barbarous languages err both in excess and defect ...
... languages are spoken . As language is the instrument of thought , the nature of a language is in some degree a guide to the in- tellectual condition of those by whom it is spoken . All barbarous languages err both in excess and defect ...
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... language in its earliest stages is better adapted to descrip- tive poetry than when it is more extensively cultivated . We shall have occasion to examine language more minutely in a future chapter , and it will perhaps be sufficient ...
... language in its earliest stages is better adapted to descrip- tive poetry than when it is more extensively cultivated . We shall have occasion to examine language more minutely in a future chapter , and it will perhaps be sufficient ...
Сторінка 40
... languages , and , different as are all these tongues , they have one common peculiarity , a cumbrous and clumsy system of construction to disguise the poverty of their several vocabularies . In the lowest scale of barbarism there is no ...
... languages , and , different as are all these tongues , they have one common peculiarity , a cumbrous and clumsy system of construction to disguise the poverty of their several vocabularies . In the lowest scale of barbarism there is no ...
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