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The House of Burnett (Burnett, Burnette, Burnard, Bernard) is a Lowland and Border Scottish family composed of several branches. [ a ] The Chief of the Name and Arms of Burnett is James Comyn Amherst Burnett of Leys.
In The Origin and Progress of Language, originally published in six volumes from 1774 to 1792, Burnett analysed the structure of languages and argued that humans had evolved language skills in response to changing environments and social structures. Burnett was the first to note that some languages create lengthy words for rather simple ...
Burnet tightly held the belief that God created the world and all its processes perfectly from the start. He wrote: We think him a better Artist that makes a Clock that strikes regularly at every hour from the Springs and Wheels which he puts into the work, than he that hath so made his Clock that he must put his finger to it every hour to make ...
Burnett is a Scottish surname. ... Another proposed origin of the name is from burnete, ... House of Burnett; Brown (surname), ...
Portrait of Gilbert Burnett, Bishop of Salisbury, painted in the style of Pieter Borsseler. Burnet was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1643, the son of Robert Burnet, Lord Crimond, a Royalist and Episcopalian lawyer, who became a judge of the Court of Session, and of his second wife Rachel Johnston, daughter of James Johnston, and sister of Archibald Johnston of Warristoun, a leader of the ...
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Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett might seem like portraits in courage, for anyone who has followed their individual and collective musical trail-blazing, but at the moment, they’re studies in ...
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor FRAI (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. [ 1 ] Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism .