Tsuni-{u01C1}Goam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-KhoiTrübner & Company, Ludgate Hill, 1881 - 154 pages |
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Page vii
... Comparative Mythology , and to the Ethnologist and Anthropologist in general . The reader will be sometimes disappointed on finding that my references to authorities are not always exact enough . I had often to quote from memory , and ...
... Comparative Mythology , and to the Ethnologist and Anthropologist in general . The reader will be sometimes disappointed on finding that my references to authorities are not always exact enough . I had often to quote from memory , and ...
Page viii
... Comparative Philology is entirely based upon phonology , and if the laws of phonology for a group of languages are * Max Müller , " Lect . " ii . p . 42 , ed . 1868 . once correctly established , the natural offshoot will be a viii.
... Comparative Philology is entirely based upon phonology , and if the laws of phonology for a group of languages are * Max Müller , " Lect . " ii . p . 42 , ed . 1868 . once correctly established , the natural offshoot will be a viii.
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... Comparative Grammar of the Kafir- Congo or Bantu Languages . * Whatever has been written afterwards on Bantu Grammar , is based on the researches of these twin - stars in the realm of the Science of Language . In availing myself of this ...
... Comparative Grammar of the Kafir- Congo or Bantu Languages . * Whatever has been written afterwards on Bantu Grammar , is based on the researches of these twin - stars in the realm of the Science of Language . In availing myself of this ...
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... comparative mythology , and its mother , comparative philology . What has been achieved by this science for the knowledge of the condition of our pre - historic races , we admire in the works of Wil- helm von Humboldt , Bopp , Pott ...
... comparative mythology , and its mother , comparative philology . What has been achieved by this science for the knowledge of the condition of our pre - historic races , we admire in the works of Wil- helm von Humboldt , Bopp , Pott ...
Page 116
... comparative grammar of the South African languages . Bishop Callaway has commenced to collect materials for the foundation of a comparative mythology of the South African races , but nothing of any importance has been done since . The ...
... comparative grammar of the South African languages . Bishop Callaway has commenced to collect materials for the foundation of a comparative mythology of the South African races , but nothing of any importance has been done since . The ...
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