The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... LANGUAGE . A. S. WILKINS , Professor of Latin in Owens , College , Manchester . LITERATURE . Prof. JEBB and Principal Donaldson . GREEK CHURCH . Rev. T. M. LINDSAY , D.D. , Professor of Divinity , Free Church College , Glasgow . GREELEY ...
... LANGUAGE . A. S. WILKINS , Professor of Latin in Owens , College , Manchester . LITERATURE . Prof. JEBB and Principal Donaldson . GREEK CHURCH . Rev. T. M. LINDSAY , D.D. , Professor of Divinity , Free Church College , Glasgow . GREELEY ...
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... language of the English school of jurists is certainly of a kind to encourage such a supposition . The entire body of law in force in a country at any moment is regarded as ex- isting solely by the fiat of the governing power . There is ...
... language of the English school of jurists is certainly of a kind to encourage such a supposition . The entire body of law in force in a country at any moment is regarded as ex- isting solely by the fiat of the governing power . There is ...
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... language is meant either the relations borne by the words of a sentence and by sentences themselves one to another , or the sys- tematized exposition of these . The exposition may be , and frequently is , incorrect ; but it always ...
... language is meant either the relations borne by the words of a sentence and by sentences themselves one to another , or the sys- tematized exposition of these . The exposition may be , and frequently is , incorrect ; but it always ...
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... language , " and it has to decide such questions as the nature of gender , or of the verb , the truc purport of the genitive relation , or the origin of grammar itself . Such questions , it is clear , can only be answered by comparing ...
... language , " and it has to decide such questions as the nature of gender , or of the verb , the truc purport of the genitive relation , or the origin of grammar itself . Such questions , it is clear , can only be answered by comparing ...
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... languages belong to the same general type , as , for instance , an Aryan and a Semitic language in the inflexional group , or a Kaffre and a Turkish language in the agglutinative group , we find no certain example of grammatical ...
... languages belong to the same general type , as , for instance , an Aryan and a Semitic language in the inflexional group , or a Kaffre and a Turkish language in the agglutinative group , we find no certain example of grammatical ...
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