The North American Review, Volume 104Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1867 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Language , in either its material substance or its formal structure , can only be reached and affected through the minds of those who employ it for the pur- poses of their expression . Every modifying cause of any other kind has to be ...
... Language , in either its material substance or its formal structure , can only be reached and affected through the minds of those who employ it for the pur- poses of their expression . Every modifying cause of any other kind has to be ...
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... language , working in the most effective manner which human conditions have been found to admit , can only succeed in indefinitely reducing its rate of progress . It will be noticed that we have used the terms " dialect " and " language ...
... language , working in the most effective manner which human conditions have been found to admit , can only succeed in indefinitely reducing its rate of progress . It will be noticed that we have used the terms " dialect " and " language ...
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... language is from diversity to uniformity ; that dialects are , in the regular order of things , antecedent to language ; that human speech began its history in a state of infinite dialectic division , which has been ever since ...
... language is from diversity to uniformity ; that dialects are , in the regular order of things , antecedent to language ; that human speech began its history in a state of infinite dialectic division , which has been ever since ...
Contents
DANIEL WEBSTER | 65 |
THE SOURCES OF THE NILE | 122 |
THE OFFICE AND INFLUENCE OF CLOTHES | 156 |
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