Excerpt from The Wonder of Words: An Introduction to Language for Everyman Among the very first books that I really owned - bought with pennies hard-earned on the streets as a newsboy - are four that, midway through high school, I devoured at once with passionate indigestion. I still have them, marked and back-broken from much rereading. They are Max Miiller's Lectures on the Science of Language, in two volumes, and William Whitney's Life and Growth of Language and Lan guage and the Study of Language. They were, and in a ...
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Excerpt from The Wonder of Words: An Introduction to Language for Everyman Among the very first books that I really owned - bought with pennies hard-earned on the streets as a newsboy - are four that, midway through high school, I devoured at once with passionate indigestion. I still have them, marked and back-broken from much rereading. They are Max Miiller's Lectures on the Science of Language, in two volumes, and William Whitney's Life and Growth of Language and Lan guage and the Study of Language. They were, and in a de gree they remain, for all the corrections that later investiga tion has made, among the most exciting volumes, in any genre, that I have read in any language. There are books whose covers are as portals that open upon new worlds. The scientific rigors Of Jespersen, Sapir, and their confreres are hardly for beginners; but they represent a goal towards which all beginners should aspire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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