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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... of the material now placed at the disposal of the student is consequently immense . With the increased number of texts of the old East has come the more accurate knowledge , based on the power of comparison INAUGURAL ADDRESS . 3.
... of the material now placed at the disposal of the student is consequently immense . With the increased number of texts of the old East has come the more accurate knowledge , based on the power of comparison INAUGURAL ADDRESS . 3.
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... texts , elucidating the history and religion of that people ; while in India the labours of General Cunningham promise to bring to light and classify the different monuments and antiquities which he ex- plores and records . The first ...
... texts , elucidating the history and religion of that people ; while in India the labours of General Cunningham promise to bring to light and classify the different monuments and antiquities which he ex- plores and records . The first ...
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... texts in character of the Phoenician alphabet and its different classes . It is a most valuable document of the Palæography of the Semitic family emancipated from the cumbrous and perplexing syllabaries of the various kinds of cunei ...
... texts in character of the Phoenician alphabet and its different classes . It is a most valuable document of the Palæography of the Semitic family emancipated from the cumbrous and perplexing syllabaries of the various kinds of cunei ...
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... text , or the forced hypothesis of an omission of years in the Assyrian canons , can at present reduce them to a common level . The difficulty has many bearings , and affects history generally ; and could these differences be reconciled ...
... text , or the forced hypothesis of an omission of years in the Assyrian canons , can at present reduce them to a common level . The difficulty has many bearings , and affects history generally ; and could these differences be reconciled ...
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... texts . The Aryan Section will have papers on the Sanskrit literature and subjects connected with it , and the flood of light which the study of this language has thrown on the history of European languages has made its study the most ...
... texts . The Aryan Section will have papers on the Sanskrit literature and subjects connected with it , and the flood of light which the study of this language has thrown on the history of European languages has made its study the most ...
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