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Vol. 6, appendix: A dictionary of the Circassian language / by L. Loewe.
 

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Sayfa 209 - The fame of our writers, is usually confined to these two islands, and it is hard it should be limited in time, as much as place, by the perpetual variations of our speech.
Sayfa 267 - Gerbert's familiarity with the Arcerian, suggested by the examination of his personal history, the Geometry itself furnishes evidence almost amounting to demonstration, that its author was unacquainted with it. The most important, and, in an historical point of view, the most interesting proposition of the mathematical part of the manuscript, so far as its contents are known, is the general formula for the area of any triangle in terms of its sides* (p.
Sayfa 97 - But on this point we can have no better authority than Mr. Garnett himself, whose extensive acquaintance even with the most outlying languages makes his evidence invaluable. In vol. iv. p. 49, he says, " We may venture to affirm that there is not such a thing as a true verb-substantive in any one member of the great Polynesian family.
Sayfa 127 - Beside, when born, the tits are little worth: Weak puling things, unable to sustain Their share of labour, and their bread to gain. If, therefore, thou a creature shalt produce, Of so great charges, and so little use, (Bear witness, heav'n, with what reluctancy) Her hapless innocence I doom to die.
Sayfa 184 - ... gracious permission of the ego, to let non-ego do as he likes. Correlatively, the suppression of reference to his own will, and the adoption of a simply predictive form on the part of the ego, is likely to be the mode with which, when the person is changed, he will associate the idea of another having his own way ; while the suppression of reference to the will of the non-ego is likely to infer restraint produced by the predominant will of the ego. Occasionally, the will of the non-ego is referred...
Sayfa 209 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine : not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but content with these British Islands as my world...
Sayfa 205 - Napoleon asked him once, with cold fixed look, " Art thou then in the world of letters known?" And meeting his imperial look with eye As little wont to turn away before The face of man, the Hollander replied, " At least I have done that whereby I have There to be known deserved.
Sayfa 157 - ... in form, and admitting of the same analysis, should not partake of the same character. The Greenland , of which the Esquimaux is merely a dialect, was for a time supposed to be generically distinct from the so-called American Indian languages, but it is now allowed that it agrees with them in all their most marked peculiarities of structure. It differs from all of them hitherto known in its vocabulary; but it has the same polysynthetic character, embodying as they do the subject and predicate...
Sayfa 173 - ... in languages of all classes and in all parts of the world, furnishes a strong primd facie ground for the belief of a general principle of analogy running through all. The above Welsh terminations are easily identified with the corresponding ones in Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, &c., with the exception of the second person singular in t, and the second plural in ch. The former may be readily understood to be an older form than the ordinary sibilant, especially if we compare tSie Doric or Latin tu with...
Sayfa 234 - Indeed the writer believes that a verb-substantive, such as is commonly conceived, vivifying all connected speech, and binding together the terms of every logical proposition, is much upon a footing with the phlogiston of the chemists of the last generation, regarded as a necessary pabulum of combustion, that is to say, vox et prteterea nihil.

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