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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... Probably persons could be found in so large a city , if required , who could speak any dialect under the sun or read any writing upon the planet . To whatever branch of Oriental learning any of those who have honoured the Congress with ...
... Probably persons could be found in so large a city , if required , who could speak any dialect under the sun or read any writing upon the planet . To whatever branch of Oriental learning any of those who have honoured the Congress with ...
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... probably the only step which will ever be made . Its value and defects will no doubt occupy the attention of the Ethno- graphical Section . It is not a language properly so called , but a means of interchange of thought , and might ...
... probably the only step which will ever be made . Its value and defects will no doubt occupy the attention of the Ethno- graphical Section . It is not a language properly so called , but a means of interchange of thought , and might ...
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... probably be shown whether it should be considered a Turanian or an Italian dialect , to which latter class the opinions of scholars have generally inclined to assign it . The views of Mr. Taylor will , how- ever , have specially to be ...
... probably be shown whether it should be considered a Turanian or an Italian dialect , to which latter class the opinions of scholars have generally inclined to assign it . The views of Mr. Taylor will , how- ever , have specially to be ...
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... probably , attach more im- portance to philological than to historical or religious considerations , and will be disposed to discuss Semitic literature and the Semitic languages in their general , rather than their special , relations ...
... probably , attach more im- portance to philological than to historical or religious considerations , and will be disposed to discuss Semitic literature and the Semitic languages in their general , rather than their special , relations ...
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... probably of the other words in this paragraph , which , as Schrader says , are formed on bases which , " by the very nature of the case , never do , nor ever can appear as verbs . " But there remains the question - are none other of ...
... probably of the other words in this paragraph , which , as Schrader says , are formed on bases which , " by the very nature of the case , never do , nor ever can appear as verbs . " But there remains the question - are none other of ...
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