Transactions of the Second Session Held at London, in September, 1874Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas Trübner, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... 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.
... 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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... knowledge of history and geography , by the discovery of the numerous names on the Pylon of Karnak , recording the foreign conquests of Thothmes III . These , in a paper lately read before the Academy of Inscriptions , enabled him to ...
... knowledge of history and geography , by the discovery of the numerous names on the Pylon of Karnak , recording the foreign conquests of Thothmes III . These , in a paper lately read before the Academy of Inscriptions , enabled him to ...
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... knowledge of those ancient empires ; while the celebrated Moabite stone or inscription of Dhiban has presented a new page to the history of the Semitic people conterminous with Judea , and is one of the oldest texts in character of the ...
... knowledge of those ancient empires ; while the celebrated Moabite stone or inscription of Dhiban has presented a new page to the history of the Semitic people conterminous with Judea , and is one of the oldest texts in character of the ...
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... knowledge of the languages of Western Asia . It is not to be supposed that discoveries so startling have been received without incredulity or opposition . The nature of these languages , written in a complex syllabary which only finds ...
... knowledge of the languages of Western Asia . It is not to be supposed that discoveries so startling have been received without incredulity or opposition . The nature of these languages , written in a complex syllabary which only finds ...
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... knowledge are omitted . If , indeed , the astronomy of these nations was disfigured by or due to a superstitious astrology , intermingled with omens , some bearing a great affinity to the practices of the West , there still remains the ...
... knowledge are omitted . If , indeed , the astronomy of these nations was disfigured by or due to a superstitious astrology , intermingled with omens , some bearing a great affinity to the practices of the West , there still remains the ...
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