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" ... which we must surrender if a fuller knowledge shows that they are untenable. In a word, we believe that there are certain permanent principles regulating the changes in our language, which, in the derived scientific sense of the word, we call laws;... "
Philology - Page 23
by John Peile - 1877 - 164 pages
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1877 - 872 pages
...unexplained ; and so we adopt provisional hypotheses to account for theso latter changes — hypotheses which we must surrender if a fuller knowledge shows...our own. we say that these laws, or some of them, oro universal in their application ; and this is the justification ot our el. iim that there is a science...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 89

1877 - 828 pages
...unexplained ; and so we adopt provisional hypotheses to account for theselatter changes — hypotheses which we must surrender if a fuller knowledge shows...regulating the changes in our language, which, in the deriveil scientific sense of the word^ we call laws ; and if we find that these principles act in other...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 89

1877 - 844 pages
...unexplained ; and so wo adopt provisional hypotheses to account for theso latter changes — hypotheses which we must surrender if a fuller knowledge shows that they are untenable. In a word, we believo that there are certaiu permanent principles regulating the changes in our language, which,...
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Deutsche Einflüsse auf die englische Sprachwissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert

Arno Beyer - 1981 - 474 pages
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