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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... 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 of access , by which travellers and others have visited these countries and their ...
... 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 of access , by which travellers and others have visited these countries and their ...
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... religion of that people ; while in 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 ...
... religion of that people ; while in 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 ...
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... religions , for it is only by the consider- ation of the Semitic myths that a true appreciation can be made of the extent to which Western Europe was influenced by the tradition- ary legends of Babylonia and Assyria . The researches ...
... religions , for it is only by the consider- ation of the Semitic myths that a true appreciation can be made of the extent to which Western Europe was influenced by the tradition- ary legends of Babylonia and Assyria . The researches ...
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... religion which looked forward to an eternal duration or the return of the past to the future . The national poem of ... religious thought . Here it is not possible to do more than allude to the services rendered to Egyptian ...
... religion which looked forward to an eternal duration or the return of the past to the future . The national poem of ... religious thought . Here it is not possible to do more than allude to the services rendered to Egyptian ...
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... religious considerations , and will be disposed to discuss Semitic literature and the Semitic languages in their general , rather than their special , relations . The time is hardly yet come , perhaps , for sound generalization in ...
... religious considerations , and will be disposed to discuss Semitic literature and the Semitic languages in their general , rather than their special , relations . The time is hardly yet come , perhaps , for sound generalization in ...
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