Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... beginning of our era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our religion has remained unchanged , at least in all its essential elements . Whether this is really so , depends on the meaning LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 7.
... beginning of our era , it is said , and not without a certain kind of pride , that our religion has remained unchanged , at least in all its essential elements . Whether this is really so , depends on the meaning LORD GIFFORD'S BEQUEST . 7.
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... beginning of a new life . Some of the work on which I was engaged had to be thrown overboard ; but I had now an opportunity , and a splendid opportunity , for summing up the whole work of my life . Forgive me if , for a short while , I ...
... beginning of a new life . Some of the work on which I was engaged had to be thrown overboard ; but I had now an opportunity , and a splendid opportunity , for summing up the whole work of my life . Forgive me if , for a short while , I ...
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... took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , in Sacred Books of the East , vol . i . p . lxi . add , reckless as I was , instead of beginning 18 LECTURE I.
... took complete possession of me , and young as I was , and , I ought to 1 Upanishads , translated by Max Müller , in Sacred Books of the East , vol . i . p . lxi . add , reckless as I was , instead of beginning 18 LECTURE I.
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... beginning my work as a lecturer in one of the German Universities , I went to Paris to attend Burnouf's lectures , and to copy and collate the MSS . of the Veda and its volu- minous commentary . It was hard work , very uphill work ...
... beginning my work as a lecturer in one of the German Universities , I went to Paris to attend Burnouf's lectures , and to copy and collate the MSS . of the Veda and its volu- minous commentary . It was hard work , very uphill work ...
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... beginning of our century General Grammar , which taught what , according to the rules of logic , language ought to be , was replaced by Comparative Grammar , which showed what language really had been , the study of Natural or General ...
... beginning of our century General Grammar , which taught what , according to the rules of logic , language ought to be , was replaced by Comparative Grammar , which showed what language really had been , the study of Natural or General ...
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