ORIENTAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES - Whitney, 1st 1873 ORIGINS THEORIES of LANGUAGE ALCHEMY Gilt on spine and embossed

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Biography of Elliott O'Donnell (1872 - 1968)

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ORIENTAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES - Whitney, 1st 1873 ORIGINS THEORIES of LANGUAGE ALCHEMY Gilt on spine and embossedORIENTAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES THE VEDA; THE AVESTA; THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE Book Details + Condition: Scribner, Armstrong and Company (New York). First Edition, 1873. Hardcover. 411 pages with Index. This is author William Dwight Whitney's signature work, which offered a profound new approach in the study of languages. Until the mid 19th century, the most prevalent school of thought was that language was defined through arbitrary and conventional