Shinar, the Scripture record of the confusion of language and the dispersion verified by modern discovery, a lecture |
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... thought to which they have not been accustomed . Others there fortunately are , who welcome new discoveries when it is ascertained that their foundations are sure , and entertain no apprehension that they will be found to be discordant ...
... thought to which they have not been accustomed . Others there fortunately are , who welcome new discoveries when it is ascertained that their foundations are sure , and entertain no apprehension that they will be found to be discordant ...
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... thought , and the vehicle by which the ideas in the mind of a man are communicated to his fellow man . To think , is ... thoughts and feelings . Words and grammar are the components of all lan- guages . Words have been happily described ...
... thought , and the vehicle by which the ideas in the mind of a man are communicated to his fellow man . To think , is ... thoughts and feelings . Words and grammar are the components of all lan- guages . Words have been happily described ...
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... thoughts , and derived a cha- racter from the people who spoke it ; for language is not only the distinguishing characteristic of the human race , but its particular quality indicates the degree of intellect and civilisation of those ...
... thoughts , and derived a cha- racter from the people who spoke it ; for language is not only the distinguishing characteristic of the human race , but its particular quality indicates the degree of intellect and civilisation of those ...
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... thoughts and achieve- ments to men of this distant generation . Sir William Jones , in his first introduction of it to the notice of the Asiatic Society in 1782 , describes it as of a wonderful structure , more perfect than the Greek ...
... thoughts and achieve- ments to men of this distant generation . Sir William Jones , in his first introduction of it to the notice of the Asiatic Society in 1782 , describes it as of a wonderful structure , more perfect than the Greek ...
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... thought and imagination which breathes in the Hebrew text of the Bible . Lessons of faith so pure and precious required for their conception and preservation language as sublime and inspiring as that which was spoken by Moses and the ...
... thought and imagination which breathes in the Hebrew text of the Bible . Lessons of faith so pure and precious required for their conception and preservation language as sublime and inspiring as that which was spoken by Moses and the ...
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abode Abraham Accad Almighty ancestors Armenia Aryan Aryan or Japhetic Asia Asshur Assyrian authenticated Babel Babylon Babylon and Nineveh Babylonia Berosus Bible blessing Brahmans brethren bricks Calneh Canaan Caucasian race Celt Celtic Chaldæan chapter of Genesis cities civilised world common countries descendants of Noah descendants of Shem dispersion early earth East Egypt eleventh chapter enlarged Erech Euphrates Europe European event existence families of Shem father Noah flood forefathers geology grammar Greece Greek guages Hamitic kingdom Hindoo Hindostan Holy Writ human India inhabitants inscriptions Japhetic family Japhetite Japhetite emigrants Latin Lord mankind Max Müller Mesopotamia Mosaic Mosaic record Moses Nimrod Nineveh Noah's family Pelasgi Persia Persian philologist plains of Shinar present hour preserved primeval religion Sanskrit language science of language Scripture record Semitic language Semitic race separation Shem and Japhet sons of Japhet sons of Shem tenth chapter testimony Teuton three tribes Tigris tion west of Shinar
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Page 28 - 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 9 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 29 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 27 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 35 - The Sanskrit 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...
Page 25 - I shall select two remarkable circumstances of a less equivocal nature. 1. The great rivers which covered the Roman provinces, the Rhine and the Danube, were frequently frozen over, and capable of supporting the most enormous weights. The barbarians, who often chose that severe season for their inroads, transported, without apprehension or danger, their numerous armies, their cavalry, and their heavy wagons, over a vast and solid bridge of ice.
Page 29 - Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem ; and Ham the father of Canaan shall be servant to them.
Page 2 - Author in this work is to show that the Mosaic narrative of the Creation is reconcilable with the established facts of geology ; and that geology not only establishes the truth of the first page of the Bible, but that it furnishes the most direct and sensible evidence of the fact of Divine inspiration, and thereby authenticates the whole canon of Scripture. The Word of God is thus authenticated by His works.
Page 2 - Dr. M'Causland is an eminent geologist and an orthodox Christian, and in this work he endeavours to harmonise the statements of Science and of Revelation. He heartily accepts the recent discoveries of a pre-Adamite mankind...
Page 40 - ... distinct in these two families of speech. This does not exclude, however, the possibility that both are diverging streams of the same source; and the comparisons that have been instituted between the Semitic roots, reduced to their simplest form, and the roots of the Aryan languages, have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started were originally the same.