Discourses on Various Subjects: Read Before Literary and Philosophical SocietiesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 276 страници |
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... occasion to consult one or two works in which the details of this discovery are given , it occurred to me that a short account of it , and of the principal theories which had been formed in reference to it , might be accept- able to the ...
... occasion to consult one or two works in which the details of this discovery are given , it occurred to me that a short account of it , and of the principal theories which had been formed in reference to it , might be accept- able to the ...
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... occasion to notice , whence important inferences may be drawn to aid the in- vestigations of the man of science , and be said , may without exaggeration , to have thrown new light on the theory of the earth . The whole account is so ...
... occasion to notice , whence important inferences may be drawn to aid the in- vestigations of the man of science , and be said , may without exaggeration , to have thrown new light on the theory of the earth . The whole account is so ...
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... occasion , to occupy your attention at any great length , but I cannot forbear remarking , on this subject , that an attentive study of the human organisation can scarcely fail to satisfy us that the utterance of articulate sounds is ...
... occasion , to occupy your attention at any great length , but I cannot forbear remarking , on this subject , that an attentive study of the human organisation can scarcely fail to satisfy us that the utterance of articulate sounds is ...
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... occasion to con- sult professes to have 20,000 more words than Johnson's , which is reckoned to contain 38,000 ; while the American lexicographer , Webster , cal- culates that his portly volumes number about 70,000 . All the causes of ...
... occasion to con- sult professes to have 20,000 more words than Johnson's , which is reckoned to contain 38,000 ; while the American lexicographer , Webster , cal- culates that his portly volumes number about 70,000 . All the causes of ...
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... occasion to mention instances of common terms being formed into proper names . There are instances also of the reverse process , the conversion of proper names into common terms . I may cite the well known substantives spencer , an ...
... occasion to mention instances of common terms being formed into proper names . There are instances also of the reverse process , the conversion of proper names into common terms . I may cite the well known substantives spencer , an ...
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