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" ... livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and... "
Lectures on the Science of Language, Delivered at the Royal Institution of ... - Page 54
by Friedrich Max Müller - 1861
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Robert Moffat - Africa, Southern - 1842 - 686 pages
...children of nature, through the livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus from this infant Babel proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases joined together without rule, and in the course of...
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Robert Chambers - Creation - 1844 - 402 pages
...children of nature, through the live-long day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of...
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The Alphabet of Nature: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Analysis ...

Alexander John Ellis - Phonetic alphabet - 1845 - 214 pages
...children of nature, through the livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect joined together without rule, and, in the course of a generation, the entire character of the language...
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Robert Chambers - Creation - 1845 - 342 pages
...children of nature, through the livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of...
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The British World in the East: A Guide Historical, Moral, and ..., Volume 1

Leitch Ritchie - Australasia - 1846 - 536 pages
...voluble condescend to the less precocius, and thus from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases joined together without rule ; and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed." The Bushmen, it may be supposed, having...
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Vestige of the Natural History of Creation: With a Sequel

Robert Chambers - Evolution - 1846 - 318 pages
...children of nature, through the livelong day, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus, from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases, joined together without rule, and in the course of...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams: Missionary to Polynesia

Ebenezer Prout - Christian ethics - 1846 - 544 pages
...children of nature, through the livelong dav, become habituated to a language of their own. The more voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus from this infant Babel proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases joined together without rule, and in the course of...
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Robert Moffat - Missions - 1846 - 186 pages
...voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus from this infant Babel proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases joined together without rule, and in the cuurse of a generation the entire character of the language is changed. Their servile state, their...
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The British World in the East: A Guide... to India, Volume 2

Leitch Ritchie - Australasia - 1847 - 560 pages
...voluble condescend to the less precocius, and thus from this infant Babel, proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases joined together without rule; and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed." The Bushmen, it may be supposed, having...
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An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man

William Frederick Van Amringe - Anthropology - 1848 - 742 pages
...voluble condescend to the less precocious, and thus from this infant Babel proceeds a dialect composed of a host of mongrel words and phrases joined together without rule, and in the course of a generation the entire character of the language is changed." Here, then, is at least one way by which...
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