Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 - English language - 431 pages

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Contents

List of Sanskrit Verbal Roots adopted by the Greek
11
CHAP XIV
13
Coincidence between European and Chinese Chronology
16
Observation and experiment the only secure basis of Physics xxxix
17
The KouOuen or oldest Chinese writing
18
ON DIVERSITIES OF LANGUAGE WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED
26
Great fluctuations in Alphabets before they became finally
32
a peculiar science
43
Two spoken Languages in China one of which may be denomi
49
CHAP VII
63
Object of Philosophical GrammarTenses
65
CHAP VIII
69
224
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Arabic Re R and Ze Z confounded
90
Arabic nouns
92
Conjugations of the Arabic verb
93
by prefixing T to the root
94
List of Arabic words with their analogies in other languages
96
CHAP XII
101
The Sanskrit alphabet appears to be mentioned by Diodorus Siculus
102
The languages of India known very slowly to Europeans
103
Literal meaning of the word Sanskrit
104
Sanskrit Nouns
105
Pronouns
106
Verbs ib X Moods and Tenses
107
Origin of the Sanskrit verb
108
The account examined and refuted
109
List of Sanskrit words which are at once nouns and verbs
110
Observations on it
112
The same subject further illustrated
113
glyphics
114
The Greek and Latin derivations from the Sanskrit Dhatos prove that they must be coeval with the great body of the language
115
Coincidences in the mythology of Hindustan and Greece The Sanskrit and Homeric epithets of Saturn The three steps of Vishnu and Neptune
116
The Sanskrit the parent of the Greek and Latin
117
The Doric R redundant
118
Grammar in Hindustan while it pretends to be a revelation has assumed the appearance of an occult science
119
CHAP XXVII
122
The tomb of Cyrus
129
CHAP XV
137
Zeta
144
XVI
151
CHAP XX
232
The Armenian Language
239
HerculesCadmus Sesostris Tearchon Navocodrosorus Idanthursus
246
African Languages
247
List of Mandingo Words
248
CHAP XXIII
249
Geographical discovery of the Phoenicians
250
Glimpses of some great Revolution in the State of the Earth
251
Force of subterranean fire
252
Submersion and elevation of Continents
253
The Ancients were aware of the possibility of reaching India by holding a Westerly course Columbus
254
Apparent coincidence between India and Peru
255
Affinities of the American Languages
256
The Mohegans have no Adjectives in their Language
257
Remains of Architecture and Sculpture in South America
259
CHAP XXIV
260
Stimulus of posthumous fame
261
Figurative Hieroglyphics
262
Phonetic Hieroglyphics
263
Picture writingMexico ib v Slow and gradual advance of Improvement
265
Limited degree of information conveyed by the art of painting
266
The Sistine ChapelThe Camere of the VaticanThe Cartoons The Transfiguration
267
Warburtons division of the Hieroglyphics of Egypt
268
Exemplifications and Illustrations
269
temple of Minerva at Sais
271
CHAP XXV
281
ON NOUNS SUBSTANTIVE EXTENSION OF THE MEANING OF WORDS
307
CHAP XXIX
328
CHAP XXX
339
CHAP XXXI
347
ON INFLEXION
353
The Hebrew Yood
373
П We are constrained to come to the conclusion that the Greek
379
We ought to revert to the primitive mode of writing Greek
393
Thierschs remarks on Accent
400
Memnon the EgyptianCecrops the AthenianLinus
401
Latin words commencing with V accounted for without
404
Passage from Dionysius of Halicarnassus the foundation
406
Hebrew Bayth B or V Hay and Heth
411
Pliny Servius Priscian
417

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