Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language

In a former Lecture on the “Stratification of Language” I ventured to assert that wherever _inflection_ has yielded to a rational analysis, it has invariably been recognized as...

I. Inaugural Lecture, On the Value of Comparative Philology as a branch of Academic Study, delivered before the University of Oxford, 1868 1 Note A. On the Final Dental of the P...

There are few sensations more pleasant than that of wondering. We have all experienced it in childhood, in youth, and in our manhood, and we may hope that even in our old age th...

πέτομαι, I fly [πέτομα] But what was my surprise when I found [surpise] the relation of language to thought is impossible [imposible] as he does others who differ from him [as b...

in every branch of human knowledge [knowlege] the Sanskrit enclitic particle _ca_, Latin _que_ [_printed “{ga}” for “{g}a”_] φοβοῦμαι διελέγχειν σε [φόβοῦμαι] in îśvaro vilikhaḥ...

[Table] composé par le sage Pilpay, Indien” [_close quote missing_] [Table] Les Contes et Fables Indiennes de Bibpaï [_text unchanged_] but resolves to give up all his earthly r...

Sanskrit _k_ may in Sinhalese be represented by _v_ [_{k} italicized, but actual k (not c) appears to be intended_] in Sanskrit +yu-mi-na-j+, instead of +yu-na-j-mi+ [_printed +...

what castes of Hindus are altogether forbid cultivating [_text unchanged: “altogether forbid” or “are altogether forbidden (to cultivate)”_] obscure allegory and puerile fable.”...

ask the heathen; ‘Are you Moslim?‘ [_double for single close quote_] an integral portion of the Brahmanic law. [law,] back to idolworship [_printed as shown_] discard “dogmatic...

the circumflexed vocative in Sanskrit, +Dyaûs+ [_printed with a Greek-style circumflex that looks like a tilde_] Footnote 9: ... Göttingen, 1872, p. 35. [Götingen] corresponding...