Report of the Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Orientalists Held in London, 1874Trübner, 1874 - 67 pages |
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... original documents and contemporary sources , thus relieving us from the necessity of relying upon secondary information afforded by Greek and other authors . The discovery of the Persian by Grotefend , subsequently per- fected by the ...
... original documents and contemporary sources , thus relieving us from the necessity of relying upon secondary information afforded by Greek and other authors . The discovery of the Persian by Grotefend , subsequently per- fected by the ...
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... original source of the very tongue in which this Address is delivered . It is , as all are aware , a literary , not a monumental language , as no monuments inscribed in Sanscrit or its nearest Indian dialects are older than the 4th ...
... original source of the very tongue in which this Address is delivered . It is , as all are aware , a literary , not a monumental language , as no monuments inscribed in Sanscrit or its nearest Indian dialects are older than the 4th ...
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... original number is not 1903 , but 31,000 years . Now , Dr. Oppert proves that the erroneous opinion of Prof. von Gutschmidt is much older than this scholar , and comes perhaps from the middle ages ; it is based on the 46th chapter of ...
... original number is not 1903 , but 31,000 years . Now , Dr. Oppert proves that the erroneous opinion of Prof. von Gutschmidt is much older than this scholar , and comes perhaps from the middle ages ; it is based on the 46th chapter of ...
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... original autograph MS . of the poem was purchased by the late F. A. Ellis from the son of Beschi's disciple in the beginning of the century for a large sum , but was lost for a time after that able student's premature and expected death ...
... original autograph MS . of the poem was purchased by the late F. A. Ellis from the son of Beschi's disciple in the beginning of the century for a large sum , but was lost for a time after that able student's premature and expected death ...
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... original Accadian participle was -an , exactly as in Etruscan . The Etruscan article is expressed by -s postfixed to the noun . The same suffix denotes the article in Mordwin , while in Elamite the suffix is either -vas or -ra . The ...
... original Accadian participle was -an , exactly as in Etruscan . The Etruscan article is expressed by -s postfixed to the noun . The same suffix denotes the article in Mordwin , while in Elamite the suffix is either -vas or -ra . The ...
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