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... considered , that the writers to whom I chiefly appeal , lived in parts of the world which gave them great advantages . The whole theology of Greece was derived from the East . We cannot , therefore , but in reason suppose , that ...
... considered , that the writers to whom I chiefly appeal , lived in parts of the world which gave them great advantages . The whole theology of Greece was derived from the East . We cannot , therefore , but in reason suppose , that ...
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... considered that children learn the use of alpha- betical sounds with much difficulty , and that strangers can never acquire the proper pronunciation of a foreign language , it seems ne- cessarily to follow that , although the power of ...
... considered that children learn the use of alpha- betical sounds with much difficulty , and that strangers can never acquire the proper pronunciation of a foreign language , it seems ne- cessarily to follow that , although the power of ...
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... considered of equal validity with respect to the other ; because no other works now exist with which the narration of Moses might be compared , and by means of which any errors that may have occurred in it might be corrected . The whole ...
... considered of equal validity with respect to the other ; because no other works now exist with which the narration of Moses might be compared , and by means of which any errors that may have occurred in it might be corrected . The whole ...
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... considered of little or no value , and at best are treated as ingenious speculations of no utility . But the celebrity of the Greeks and Romans , the high antiquity of the Chaldeans and Hindus , and the proud superiority of the ...
... considered of little or no value , and at best are treated as ingenious speculations of no utility . But the celebrity of the Greeks and Romans , the high antiquity of the Chaldeans and Hindus , and the proud superiority of the ...
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... considered as merely hazarded for the sake of singularity , and therefore undeserving of A specimen of these encomiums may be taken from Richardson's preface to his Arabic Grammar , as he has merely condensed into one sentence the ...
... considered as merely hazarded for the sake of singularity , and therefore undeserving of A specimen of these encomiums may be taken from Richardson's preface to his Arabic Grammar , as he has merely condensed into one sentence the ...
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Adelung admitted affinity of language alphabet ancient writers Anglo-Saxon antiquity appears Arabia Asia Minor authority Babylonia Celtic Celts circumstance civilisation cognate colonies conclusion conjecture conquest consequently considered consonants contained contrary derived Diodorus Siculus dissimilar distinct languages Egypt English etymologists etymology Europe Euxine evident evince exist Firdausi foreign formed German Getæ Gothic Goths grammatical structure Grecian Greece Greek Alphabet Greek and Latin guages Hebrew Herodotus Hindus Homer hypothesis identity impossible India inflections inhabitants language of Asia langue letters lingua manner merely migrated Muhammadan nations necessarily follow nouns observes opinion origin Pahlvi parent tongue Parsi particles Pelasgi Pelasgian Persian Phenician preserved primitive tongue probable pronunciation prove quæ race received religion remarks render respecting Romans Sanscrit words Scythians seems singular slightest sound spoken Strabo sufficient supposed Tartar tenses Teutonic dialects Thrace Thracian language Thracians Thucydides trace Trojan war verb vowels Zend δε
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Page 13 - And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
Page 13 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Page 14 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 189 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 11 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 11 - All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons...
Page 14 - And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of the spoilers that spoiled them...
Page xvi - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page xvi - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 21 - Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia...