Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists: Held in London in September, 1874Robert K. Douglas |
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... early languages have in the study of comparative philology , owing to the undoubtedly remote age of the early monuments on which the languages appear , and their showing its change and development in the course of cen- turies . It is ...
... early languages have in the study of comparative philology , owing to the undoubtedly remote age of the early monuments on which the languages appear , and their showing its change and development in the course of cen- turies . It is ...
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... early civilization that it starts already full grown into life in the valley of the Nile as a nation highly advanced in language , painting , and sculpture , and offers the enigma as to whence it attained so high a point of development ...
... early civilization that it starts already full grown into life in the valley of the Nile as a nation highly advanced in language , painting , and sculpture , and offers the enigma as to whence it attained so high a point of development ...
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... early Oriental style of architecture , for the Doric style came from Egypt , the Ionic from Assyria , the later Corin- thian again from Egypt . If Phoenicia conferred an alphabet on Greece , Egypt suggested the use of such characters to ...
... early Oriental style of architecture , for the Doric style came from Egypt , the Ionic from Assyria , the later Corin- thian again from Egypt . If Phoenicia conferred an alphabet on Greece , Egypt suggested the use of such characters to ...
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... earliest and the existing civilization of the East . Both enter extensively into the history of the human race , and without their aid no description of ancient life , however brilliant , is complete . The ancient monuments of India ...
... earliest and the existing civilization of the East . Both enter extensively into the history of the human race , and without their aid no description of ancient life , however brilliant , is complete . The ancient monuments of India ...
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... early immigrations which were made before history was written , or tradition definitely handed down . Some of these questions will occupy the attention of the Ethnological Section , and will receive ample illustration from the ...
... early immigrations which were made before history was written , or tradition definitely handed down . Some of these questions will occupy the attention of the Ethnological Section , and will receive ample illustration from the ...
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