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... appears to subsist between the Copts and Hotten- tots in general appearance . ' ( Appleyard , The Kafir Language . 1850. ) Since the Hottentot race is known only as a receding one , and traces of its existence extend into the interior ...
... appears to subsist between the Copts and Hotten- tots in general appearance . ' ( Appleyard , The Kafir Language . 1850. ) Since the Hottentot race is known only as a receding one , and traces of its existence extend into the interior ...
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... appear , which are not in themselves absurd- viz . demonstrably contradictory to its own princi- ples . But by what tests and rules are they to be examined ? They can only be examined by those tests and rules which the Science of ...
... appear , which are not in themselves absurd- viz . demonstrably contradictory to its own princi- ples . But by what tests and rules are they to be examined ? They can only be examined by those tests and rules which the Science of ...
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... appears in Lithuanian as aszva ( mare ) , in Latin as ekvus , i.e. equus , in Greek as kкos , 19 oг Tπоs , in Old Saxon as ehu . Many a name might have been given to the horse besides the one here mentioned ; but , whatever name was ...
... appears in Lithuanian as aszva ( mare ) , in Latin as ekvus , i.e. equus , in Greek as kкos , 19 oг Tπоs , in Old Saxon as ehu . Many a name might have been given to the horse besides the one here mentioned ; but , whatever name was ...
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... appear . The comfort and advantage of society , how- ever , not being to be had without communication of thoughts , it was necessary that man should find out some external sen- sible signs , whereby those invisible ideas of which his ...
... appear . The comfort and advantage of society , how- ever , not being to be had without communication of thoughts , it was necessary that man should find out some external sen- sible signs , whereby those invisible ideas of which his ...
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... appears in élipon , assumes the forms leípo and léloipa , and the same scale of vowel - changes may be observed in liph , aleíphō , éloipha , and pith , peitho , pépoitha . Hence stoichos presupposes a root stich , and this root would ...
... appears in élipon , assumes the forms leípo and léloipa , and the same scale of vowel - changes may be observed in liph , aleíphō , éloipha , and pith , peitho , pépoitha . Hence stoichos presupposes a root stich , and this root would ...
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