Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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Page 252
... speech are made and are limited by the machinery , so to speak , of nature . Whatever language is spoken , and by whatever race , the lungs , the larynx , the vocal cords , the palate , the tongue , the teeth , and the lips are the ...
... speech are made and are limited by the machinery , so to speak , of nature . Whatever language is spoken , and by whatever race , the lungs , the larynx , the vocal cords , the palate , the tongue , the teeth , and the lips are the ...
Page 253
... speech is not wholly physical ; nor , indeed , primarily so , for language is governed largely by the law of metaphysics , by the laws of the human mind and understanding . Thought is almost as much bound to speech as speech to thought ...
... speech is not wholly physical ; nor , indeed , primarily so , for language is governed largely by the law of metaphysics , by the laws of the human mind and understanding . Thought is almost as much bound to speech as speech to thought ...
Page 256
... speech after the Norman Conquest , for the conquerors , in learning the tongue of the people who still formed the ... speech by the same patient study of his fossils , which are dead languages , and by the living organisms of still ...
... speech after the Norman Conquest , for the conquerors , in learning the tongue of the people who still formed the ... speech by the same patient study of his fossils , which are dead languages , and by the living organisms of still ...
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