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What value the book may possess is a question in no degree involving that of the year in which it was written.
No scientific experiments are required for its subject, no geographical discoveries; so that to all practical intents and purposes it is, after all, a new one. While revising, I have endeavoured to avoid adopting anything from the authors named, unless in the form of a brief quotation.
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What value the book may possess is a question in no degree involving that of the year in which it was written.
No scientific experiments are required for its subject, no geographical discoveries; so that to all practical intents and purposes it is, after all, a new one. While revising, I have endeavoured to avoid adopting anything from the authors named, unless in the form of a brief quotation.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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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Excerpt from Figurative Language, Its Origin and Constitution
Though now placed for the first time before the public in general, this little work is essentially a revised edition of one printed under the same title in 1850. Only a hundred copies were struck off, and these went into the hands of personal friends, excepting two or three which were presented to local libraries. One of them is in the library of the Manchester Athenæum. This statement as to the long-ago composition is rendered necessary by the issue, during the twenty-eight years since elapsed, of writings upon language and etymology from the pens of Farrar, Wedgwood, Earle, Whitney, Trench, and preeminently Max Muller. I do not presume to say that I was in any degree the pioneer of these eminent authors: my desire is simply to show that I have not been their imitator. Neither do I presume to consider myself their rival, even afar off. On the whole they have strengthened and confirmed me in my views, especially as regards the Origin of Language. There are points, nevertheless, upon which a comparison of the various works would indicate a rather wide disagreement.
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