Contributions to the History of the Development of the Human Race: Lectures and DissertationsTrübner & Company, 1880 - 156 pages |
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... CHINA : Containing a Brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese , with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion amongst that People . By JOSEPH EDKINS , D.D. , Peking . " We confidently recommend a careful perusal ...
... CHINA : Containing a Brief Account of the Three Religions of the Chinese , with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion amongst that People . By JOSEPH EDKINS , D.D. , Peking . " We confidently recommend a careful perusal ...
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... Chinese hiuan , which at present signifies sky - blue , but in early times meant black . In ancient books it occurs in the combination hiuan te , te meaning virtue or merit , and both words together naturally not blue , but obscure or ...
... Chinese hiuan , which at present signifies sky - blue , but in early times meant black . In ancient books it occurs in the combination hiuan te , te meaning virtue or merit , and both words together naturally not blue , but obscure or ...
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... Chinese have since olden times assumed five colours , viz . , green in addition to the above . The same we meet with among Arabic philosophers . of flowers first makes its appearance in the " Song 58 ON COLOUR - SENSE .
... Chinese have since olden times assumed five colours , viz . , green in addition to the above . The same we meet with among Arabic philosophers . of flowers first makes its appearance in the " Song 58 ON COLOUR - SENSE .
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... Chinese columns . If we add to these the still preserved characters of the funda- mental Semitic alphabet itself in its Hebrew , Ethio- pian , Samaritan , Zend or Middle Persian , Syrian , and Arabic branches , and if we further ...
... Chinese columns . If we add to these the still preserved characters of the funda- mental Semitic alphabet itself in its Hebrew , Ethio- pian , Samaritan , Zend or Middle Persian , Syrian , and Arabic branches , and if we further ...
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... Chinese and the syllabic writing of the Japanese , formed out of it , may be with certainty excluded from the universal descent from the one Semitic alphabet . But the ever - memorable discoveries of the present century have made us ...
... Chinese and the syllabic writing of the Japanese , formed out of it , may be with certainty excluded from the universal descent from the one Semitic alphabet . But the ever - memorable discoveries of the present century have made us ...
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