Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists: Held in London in September, 1874Robert K. Douglas Trübner, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... Chinese Language at the Time of the Invention of Writing . By the Rev. J. Edkins , D.D. · 53 64 333 98 • Sur la Reconstitution de la Langue Chinoise Archaïque . Par le Pro- fesseur Léon de Rosny 120 • Results of an Examination of Chinese ...
... Chinese Language at the Time of the Invention of Writing . By the Rev. J. Edkins , D.D. · 53 64 333 98 • Sur la Reconstitution de la Langue Chinoise Archaïque . Par le Pro- fesseur Léon de Rosny 120 • Results of an Examination of Chinese ...
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... Chinese language and literature . It is not necessary here to do more than briefly allude to the extent of the literature of China and the mass of old writings which have survived the repeated con- flagrations which have overtaken it ...
... Chinese language and literature . It is not necessary here to do more than briefly allude to the extent of the literature of China and the mass of old writings which have survived the repeated con- flagrations which have overtaken it ...
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... China , with all their internal varieties , the Ainos , the Miautsze , the natives of the Andaman Islands - in short , the general state of the question of the early immigrations which were made before history was written , or tradition ...
... China , with all their internal varieties , the Ainos , the Miautsze , the natives of the Andaman Islands - in short , the general state of the question of the early immigrations which were made before history was written , or tradition ...
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... China , Hungary , etc. , they have cultivated their language , and produced a copious literature , without losing this feature of the family likeness . In assigning the Turanian nations to two principal varieties of the human race , I ...
... China , Hungary , etc. , they have cultivated their language , and produced a copious literature , without losing this feature of the family likeness . In assigning the Turanian nations to two principal varieties of the human race , I ...
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... Chinese , who , however , retain the oblique eye and other Mongoloid features ; and similar variations are found in the Asiatic islands . From their original seat in the centre of Asia they appear to have spread mostly to the north 1 ...
... Chinese , who , however , retain the oblique eye and other Mongoloid features ; and similar variations are found in the Asiatic islands . From their original seat in the centre of Asia they appear to have spread mostly to the north 1 ...
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