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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... origin have descended to the present day , and exercise more influence than is generally supposed on modern religious thought . Here it is not possible to do more than allude to the services rendered to Egyptian interpretation by ...
... origin have descended to the present day , and exercise more influence than is generally supposed on modern religious thought . Here it is not possible to do more than allude to the services rendered to Egyptian interpretation by ...
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... origin , development , and scientific classification of the Semitic languages . At any rate I have not the requisite knowledge or leisure to grapple with such a question . All that I propose to do in opening this Section is to draw ...
... origin , development , and scientific classification of the Semitic languages . At any rate I have not the requisite knowledge or leisure to grapple with such a question . All that I propose to do in opening this Section is to draw ...
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... origin , whatever it be , is not explicable on the ground of conscious attachment of a pro- nominal fragment as an afformative . Of the first plural and the second persons it will be time to speak when any specimens of them put in an ...
... origin , whatever it be , is not explicable on the ground of conscious attachment of a pro- nominal fragment as an afformative . Of the first plural and the second persons it will be time to speak when any specimens of them put in an ...
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... origin . By mathematical calcula- tion I have been enabled to fix the date of a double phenomenon which struck the sight of men , consisting in an eclipse , and in an apparition of Sirius1 visible only during this eclipse , on Tuesday ...
... origin . By mathematical calcula- tion I have been enabled to fix the date of a double phenomenon which struck the sight of men , consisting in an eclipse , and in an apparition of Sirius1 visible only during this eclipse , on Tuesday ...
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... origin of this substituted number . Moreover this number has merely been obtained by the previous hypothesis , that from the Deluge down to Cyrus there was an interval of 36,000 years . It is impossible , in consequence , to deny that ...
... origin of this substituted number . Moreover this number has merely been obtained by the previous hypothesis , that from the Deluge down to Cyrus there was an interval of 36,000 years . It is impossible , in consequence , to deny that ...
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