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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... seem desirable to discuss under these several heads . There only now remains to mention the assistance rendered to Oriental studies by the Universities and learned societies of Europe , who , in addition to the interest with which they ...
... seem desirable to discuss under these several heads . There only now remains to mention the assistance rendered to Oriental studies by the Universities and learned societies of Europe , who , in addition to the interest with which they ...
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... seem to be one of the earliest members of the wide - spread Semitic family . Educated Europe was very slow to admit the genuineness of Cuneiform decipherment . It was asserted at first as a well - known axiom , that it was impossible to ...
... seem to be one of the earliest members of the wide - spread Semitic family . Educated Europe was very slow to admit the genuineness of Cuneiform decipherment . It was asserted at first as a well - known axiom , that it was impossible to ...
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... seems to have arisen from a notion in his mind that because every proposition implies a verb , it must explicitly exhibit one . Hence , chap . v . § 17 , he talks of a passage where anaku is " used as a verb , there being no other in ...
... seems to have arisen from a notion in his mind that because every proposition implies a verb , it must explicitly exhibit one . Hence , chap . v . § 17 , he talks of a passage where anaku is " used as a verb , there being no other in ...
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... seems pretty certain , on account of the general resemblance of the whole Ethiopic perfect to the same tense in the cognates , both in form and in prin- 1 In Mr. Sayce's Principles of Comparative Philology , p . 87 ( Trübner , 1874 ) ...
... seems pretty certain , on account of the general resemblance of the whole Ethiopic perfect to the same tense in the cognates , both in form and in prin- 1 In Mr. Sayce's Principles of Comparative Philology , p . 87 ( Trübner , 1874 ) ...
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... seems not to be borne out by the editions . Yet one would think that unless the word had stood " " , the punctua- tors would hardly have felt compelled to treat it as other than a Perfect . Dis the only instance which the preformative ...
... seems not to be borne out by the editions . Yet one would think that unless the word had stood " " , the punctua- tors would hardly have felt compelled to treat it as other than a Perfect . Dis the only instance which the preformative ...
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