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... known , the actual state of the world 500 years B. C. , and its sub- sequent changes . * Strabo flourished about A. D. 20 ; but the great attention and judgment with which he had consulted writers more ancient than himself , and had ...
... known , the actual state of the world 500 years B. C. , and its sub- sequent changes . * Strabo flourished about A. D. 20 ; but the great attention and judgment with which he had consulted writers more ancient than himself , and had ...
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... before he attains the end of his pursuit . But he finds , without the least research , numerous words in all known languages which bear no ― resemblance to each other , and the etymon of which 8 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . 00.
... before he attains the end of his pursuit . But he finds , without the least research , numerous words in all known languages which bear no ― resemblance to each other , and the etymon of which 8 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . 00.
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... known of the Hebrews . * To its authenticity , either in the whole or in particular parts , I am aware that numerous objections have been made , and the slightest examination of it shows that it answers very imperfectly the purposes of ...
... known of the Hebrews . * To its authenticity , either in the whole or in particular parts , I am aware that numerous objections have been made , and the slightest examination of it shows that it answers very imperfectly the purposes of ...
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... known what change the Kushites , an Arabian colony , may have produced in it . After the emigration of the Chaldæans their dialect became predominant , which Daniel , cap . ii . * , expressly calls Aramæan . " + But Adelung does not ...
... known what change the Kushites , an Arabian colony , may have produced in it . After the emigration of the Chaldæans their dialect became predominant , which Daniel , cap . ii . * , expressly calls Aramæan . " + But Adelung does not ...
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... known respecting the ancient state of this country appears in a form the most questionable and liable to objection : for , were it even admitted that the Egyptian priests communicated to strangers nothing but the truth , still ...
... known respecting the ancient state of this country appears in a form the most questionable and liable to objection : for , were it even admitted that the Egyptian priests communicated to strangers nothing but the truth , still ...
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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...