The Right Method of Studying the Greek and Latin ClassicsB.H. Blackwell, 1887 - 26 pages |
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... comparative philology , a branch of study cultivated with increasing ardour . Perhaps no subject connected with classical study has profited more abundantly from the research of the nineteenth century . Many boys still at school could ...
... comparative philology , a branch of study cultivated with increasing ardour . Perhaps no subject connected with classical study has profited more abundantly from the research of the nineteenth century . Many boys still at school could ...
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... comparative study of languages would , in time , throw light on the dispositions and manners of nations . As philology attains to more of the well - ordered regularity of a science and becomes less a matter of guess - work , it may be ...
... comparative study of languages would , in time , throw light on the dispositions and manners of nations . As philology attains to more of the well - ordered regularity of a science and becomes less a matter of guess - work , it may be ...
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... comparative mythologists and other re- searchers are gradually hiding from sight the classical writers themselves . The truism that to study the classical authors properly it is necessary to read what they wrote would come to many ...
... comparative mythologists and other re- searchers are gradually hiding from sight the classical writers themselves . The truism that to study the classical authors properly it is necessary to read what they wrote would come to many ...
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... Comparative Philology ( Polyglots ) ... ... ... Grammars , Dictionaries , Texts , and Translations : — Accad - v . Assyrian African Languages PAGE 56 Icelandic ... ... 51 Japanese : : American Languages Albanian ... Anglo - Saxon ...
... Comparative Philology ( Polyglots ) ... ... ... Grammars , Dictionaries , Texts , and Translations : — Accad - v . Assyrian African Languages PAGE 56 Icelandic ... ... 51 Japanese : : American Languages Albanian ... Anglo - Saxon ...
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... COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIAN AND MESOPOTAMIAN RELIGIONS . By C. P. Tiele . Egypt , Babel - Assur , Yemen , Harran , Phoenicia , Israel . Vol . I. History of the Egyptian Religion . Translated from the Dutch , with the co ...
... COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIAN AND MESOPOTAMIAN RELIGIONS . By C. P. Tiele . Egypt , Babel - Assur , Yemen , Harran , Phoenicia , Israel . Vol . I. History of the Egyptian Religion . Translated from the Dutch , with the co ...
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