A Manual of Comparative Philology: In which the Affinity of the Indo-European Languages is Illustrated, and Applied to the Primeval History of Europe, Italy, and Rome |
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... least historical truth , nor even the slightest historical importance , I should wish to quit the subject " ( vol . i . p . 186 ) . His second volume begins thus : " It was one of the main objects of the first volume to prove that the ...
... least historical truth , nor even the slightest historical importance , I should wish to quit the subject " ( vol . i . p . 186 ) . His second volume begins thus : " It was one of the main objects of the first volume to prove that the ...
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... least command serious attention . For my own part , I have been startled by coincidences which confirm the accuracy of the Rabbin- ical sources ; but I shall not speak confidently , for Niebuhr has said on the subject of the Tuscans ...
... least command serious attention . For my own part , I have been startled by coincidences which confirm the accuracy of the Rabbin- ical sources ; but I shall not speak confidently , for Niebuhr has said on the subject of the Tuscans ...
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... least mixed of the two , and belonged entirely to the Median division ; whilst Greek contained two clearly distinguishable elements , the Medo - Grecian and Perso - Grecian . The former , or Medo- Grecian , constitutes what is generally ...
... least mixed of the two , and belonged entirely to the Median division ; whilst Greek contained two clearly distinguishable elements , the Medo - Grecian and Perso - Grecian . The former , or Medo- Grecian , constitutes what is generally ...
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... least find very conducive to a comprehensive and perspicuous view of his subject . An additional nomenclature of this nature was actually necessary for my purpose ; but I am ready to sacrifice it for any better that can be substituted ...
... least find very conducive to a comprehensive and perspicuous view of his subject . An additional nomenclature of this nature was actually necessary for my purpose ; but I am ready to sacrifice it for any better that can be substituted ...
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... , whilst the latest in Sanskrit and Zend extend at least several centuries before the Christian era : the Persian , therefore , of the ninth century , sent . and that of the Zend period , may have varied 12 SANSKRIT , ZEND , PERSIAN . 27.
... , whilst the latest in Sanskrit and Zend extend at least several centuries before the Christian era : the Persian , therefore , of the ninth century , sent . and that of the Zend period , may have varied 12 SANSKRIT , ZEND , PERSIAN . 27.
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Page 222 - Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Page 20 - 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 146 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 286 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 208 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 242 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 233 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 233 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 222 - And he shall set up an ensign " for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of " Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah " from the four corners of the earth. The envy also " of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah " shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and
Page 229 - Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered : and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.