Transactions of the Second Session Held at London, in September, 1874Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas Trübner, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... nature - it makes us all akin , just as in the study itself everything that is individual disappears from the mind , except the pursuit itself . Orientalists , too , are all , so to say , men born of the same family , and , like a ...
... nature - it makes us all akin , just as in the study itself everything that is individual disappears from the mind , except the pursuit itself . Orientalists , too , are all , so to say , men born of the same family , and , like a ...
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... natural transition to pass from this subject to the con- sideration of the attempts made to introduce universal communication by means of Pasigraphy , or writing by ciphers . This system has been for some time in use in the West , and ...
... natural transition to pass from this subject to the con- sideration of the attempts made to introduce universal communication by means of Pasigraphy , or writing by ciphers . This system has been for some time in use in the West , and ...
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... nature of these languages , written in a complex syllabary which only finds its parallel in the abnormal script of Japan , and the difficulties which first attached to the decipherment of the names of gods and kings , caused the first ...
... nature of these languages , written in a complex syllabary which only finds its parallel in the abnormal script of Japan , and the difficulties which first attached to the decipherment of the names of gods and kings , caused the first ...
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... natural sciences the intimate acquaintance with living species , fauna , and flora is essential to the due comprehension of extinct races of animals . Many obscure points in archæology are cleared up by ethnological studies , which ...
... natural sciences the intimate acquaintance with living species , fauna , and flora is essential to the due comprehension of extinct races of animals . Many obscure points in archæology are cleared up by ethnological studies , which ...
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... nature which have ever contributed to the comfort , luxury , and refinement of mankind and to the development of the arts and sciences . These natural products it is impossible to do more than allude to , they are So numerous- -valuable ...
... nature which have ever contributed to the comfort , luxury , and refinement of mankind and to the development of the arts and sciences . These natural products it is impossible to do more than allude to , they are So numerous- -valuable ...
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