John Ledyard's Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964 - 698 pages |
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... Sound was before Orthography : that is nature , the other art . Two persons of different Languages would think more in unison of a third from the Sound of it than its orthography . There is always more difference in the Sound or ...
... Sound was before Orthography : that is nature , the other art . Two persons of different Languages would think more in unison of a third from the Sound of it than its orthography . There is always more difference in the Sound or ...
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... sound the Letter R ) is analogous in sound & orthography to the word Tartar . The former signifies Man in the Otaheite language & in the Tartar language the Latter is I think expressive of the same Idea.148 I wish I could assert upon ...
... sound the Letter R ) is analogous in sound & orthography to the word Tartar . The former signifies Man in the Otaheite language & in the Tartar language the Latter is I think expressive of the same Idea.148 I wish I could assert upon ...
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... Sound , on the Western Coast of America ; and with this view he expended in sea stores the greatest part of the money which his chief benefactor Sir Joseph Banks ( whose generous conduct the Writer of this Narrative has often heard him ...
... Sound , on the Western Coast of America ; and with this view he expended in sea stores the greatest part of the money which his chief benefactor Sir Joseph Banks ( whose generous conduct the Writer of this Narrative has often heard him ...
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