Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists: Held in London in September, 1874Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas Trübner & Company, 1876 - 456 pages |
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... India is not without its representatives . An eminent Civil Servant of the Indian Government is here from the Presidency of Bombay , and will , I am sure , carry back with him to that Presidency the remembrance of the warm reception ...
... India is not without its representatives . An eminent Civil Servant of the Indian Government is here from the Presidency of Bombay , and will , I am sure , carry back with him to that Presidency the remembrance of the warm reception ...
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... India , and Persia , have thrown an entirely new light on the ancient monarchies , religions and languages of the Eastern world as it existed forty centuries ago . This has been due to several causes , chiefly to the improved facilities ...
... India , and Persia , have thrown an entirely new light on the ancient monarchies , religions and languages of the Eastern world as it existed forty centuries ago . This has been due to several causes , chiefly to the improved facilities ...
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... India the labours of General Cunningham promise to bring to light and classify the different monuments and antiquities which he ex- plores and records . The first discoveries of these ancient languages , it will be remembered , were due ...
... India the labours of General Cunningham promise to bring to light and classify the different monuments and antiquities which he ex- plores and records . The first discoveries of these ancient languages , it will be remembered , were due ...
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... India will come under the consideration of the Archæological Section , as also the always interesting subject of the Great Pyramid , about which many opinions have prevailed , although the only one received by Egyptologists is that it ...
... India will come under the consideration of the Archæological Section , as also the always interesting subject of the Great Pyramid , about which many opinions have prevailed , although the only one received by Egyptologists is that it ...
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... India , China , Hungary , etc. , they have cultivated their language , and produced a copious literature , without losing this feature of the family likeness . In assigning the Turanian nations to two principal varieties of the human ...
... India , China , Hungary , etc. , they have cultivated their language , and produced a copious literature , without losing this feature of the family likeness . In assigning the Turanian nations to two principal varieties of the human ...
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