"There is another kind of studies which distinguished from the sometimes opposed to comparative grammar. It is known u…"

"Historical grammar is now in a position to confirm or to refute."

"There is a constant succession of books on the subject of comparative grammar, for the use both of students and of th…"

"My intention was to give a general outline, to sketch a general division and, as it were, a provisional plan of a dom…"

"We define law, using the word in the philosophic sense, as the constant relation discoverable in a series of phenomena."

"In that second part we propose to investigate how it happens that words, once created and endowed with a certain mean…"

"The so-called pejorative tendency has yet another cause. It is in the nature of human malice to take pleasure in look…"

"In modern society, the meaning of words changes much more quickly than it did in antiquity or even in the recent past…"

"We must realize the extent to which it is necessary that our knowledge of language be based on history. Only history …"

"Sometimes is a synonym which extends itself, and contrasts by just much the domain of its colleague. At other times i…"