Report of the Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Orientalists Held in London, 1874Trübner, 1874 - 67 pages |
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... texts of the old East has come the more accurate knowledge , based on the power of comparison now given to the student . These materials were unknown to inquirers of the previous century . Empires have been exhumed . and for the first ...
... texts of the old East has come the more accurate knowledge , based on the power of comparison now given to the student . These materials were unknown to inquirers of the previous century . Empires have been exhumed . and for the first ...
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... texts . The Aryan Section will have papers on the Sanscrit literature and subjects con- nected with it , and the flood of light which the study of this language has thrown on the history of European languages has made its study the most ...
... texts . The Aryan Section will have papers on the Sanscrit literature and subjects con- nected with it , and the flood of light which the study of this language has thrown on the history of European languages has made its study the most ...
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... texts , but the Median text says Rhagae , as it quotes simply Babylon , Arbela , Pasargada , and Ecbatana . Common sense shows that the language placed between the Persian and the Assyrian , and before the Assyrian , must be the idiom ...
... texts , but the Median text says Rhagae , as it quotes simply Babylon , Arbela , Pasargada , and Ecbatana . Common sense shows that the language placed between the Persian and the Assyrian , and before the Assyrian , must be the idiom ...
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... texts , and there are traces among the Hindus of a growing feeling , not very different from that which Tacitus described , when he said of the Germans : " Who would go to Germany , a country without natural beauty , with a wretched ...
... texts , and there are traces among the Hindus of a growing feeling , not very different from that which Tacitus described , when he said of the Germans : " Who would go to Germany , a country without natural beauty , with a wretched ...
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... texts have reached our time may well excite our admiration , principally if we bear in mind that this is exclusively owing to oral teaching , and not to the use of MSS . Although the Brahmans are at present in the possession of MSS . of ...
... texts have reached our time may well excite our admiration , principally if we bear in mind that this is exclusively owing to oral teaching , and not to the use of MSS . Although the Brahmans are at present in the possession of MSS . of ...
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