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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... regard to that group of languages to which the conventional name has been given of Semitic . This group has always possessed an interest beyond , and independently of , its linguistic peculiarities , in consequence of its having been ...
... regard to that group of languages to which the conventional name has been given of Semitic . This group has always possessed an interest beyond , and independently of , its linguistic peculiarities , in consequence of its having been ...
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... regard to the most essential branch of the inquiry , from which she is not likely to be soon displaced . It is , indeed , a searching and elaborate critical power , combined with intense application and a thorough mastery of the Semitic ...
... regard to the most essential branch of the inquiry , from which she is not likely to be soon displaced . It is , indeed , a searching and elaborate critical power , combined with intense application and a thorough mastery of the Semitic ...
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... a verb , there being no other in the sentence . " This annihilates at once the distinction between verb and pronoun ; because in such phrases as 1 , before him , could regard the formation , of which THE ASSYRIAN PERMANSIVE . 27.
... a verb , there being no other in the sentence . " This annihilates at once the distinction between verb and pronoun ; because in such phrases as 1 , before him , could regard the formation , of which THE ASSYRIAN PERMANSIVE . 27.
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... regard the formation , of which they are types , as one " specially , " or " distinctively pertaining to verbs , " is to me as " inconceivable 172 as to Prof. Schrader . With the latter I find it impossible to suppose that the vowels of ...
... regard the formation , of which they are types , as one " specially , " or " distinctively pertaining to verbs , " is to me as " inconceivable 172 as to Prof. Schrader . With the latter I find it impossible to suppose that the vowels of ...
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... regards bases other than verbal , the modes in which pronouns may be combined with them are various , and I must leave to the professed Syriast an exhaustive description of them . First , however , there seems no reason for supposing ...
... regards bases other than verbal , the modes in which pronouns may be combined with them are various , and I must leave to the professed Syriast an exhaustive description of them . First , however , there seems no reason for supposing ...
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