This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...modification. I am aware that (p. 20) you admit that "there have been instances" in which theoretical questions have arisen even in the first stage. I have my doubts whether this is not the rule, 252 A merican Languages ch. Xh rather than the exception. Look for instance at the ancient Physics. Look at Smith's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...modification. I am aware that (p. 20) you admit that "there have been instances" in which theoretical questions have arisen even in the first stage. I have my doubts whether this is not the rule, 252 A merican Languages ch. Xh rather than the exception. Look for instance at the ancient Physics. Look at Smith's and Stewart's Theories of Language, &c. '(3) I note a few special points that have caught my eye--(p. 21): "I expect we shall have to do something else." This, I think, is hardly a classical use of the term " expect!' It would be impertinent in me to express admiration of the almost uniform precision of your English.... Various other small corrections follow. 'Yours very truly, 'Henry G. L1ddell.' Max Muller's mother left him when the autumn weather set in, and he writes to her: --Translation. 64, H1gh Street, November 20. 'I have not been well enough to write much lately, but have read a good deal, among other books Varnhagen's new work. It is wonderfully interesting, and shows signs of a very noble nature, though weak and cross-grained. He misunderstands many people, and therefore dislikes them--as specially Bunsen. His expressions with regard to him are really infamous, but I don't care for that; words do not make truth, and what he says is not true. One must not mind such false judgement of really noble impulses. As a picture of political and mental efforts, of the stupidity, even madness, of the Government, the book is invaluable. How furious the people in Berlin will be! That the publication has been allowed at all shows the advance made since 1848.' Early in December, Max Miiller received a letter from a gentleman in California, who had read his Lectures, urging him to study 'the philological connexion of...
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