Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... scholar , as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann , Haupt , Westermann , Nobbe , and Stallbaum . These were great names at the time , and excellent teachers ; but even before I had taken my degree , I was tempted away by philosophy , attending ...
... scholar , as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann , Haupt , Westermann , Nobbe , and Stallbaum . These were great names at the time , and excellent teachers ; but even before I had taken my degree , I was tempted away by philosophy , attending ...
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... scholars in Europe . New clouds , however , were then gathering on my horizon . The Imperial Academy of St. Peters- burg , even at that time deeply interested in Indian literature , had voted large funds for bringing out an edition of ...
... scholars in Europe . New clouds , however , were then gathering on my horizon . The Imperial Academy of St. Peters- burg , even at that time deeply interested in Indian literature , had voted large funds for bringing out an edition of ...
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... scholar . The one scholar in Germany who by his lexicographic labours would seem to have been best qualified for that task , Professor Roth , declared honestly that a translation of the Veda is a task not for this , but for the next ...
... scholar . The one scholar in Germany who by his lexicographic labours would seem to have been best qualified for that task , Professor Roth , declared honestly that a translation of the Veda is a task not for this , but for the next ...
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... scholars in Europe and India , and we began to publish a series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East , which by this time amounts to thirty volumes , and will ultimately com- prise forty - eight . While engaged in conducting ...
... scholars in Europe and India , and we began to publish a series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East , which by this time amounts to thirty volumes , and will ultimately com- prise forty - eight . While engaged in conducting ...
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... scholar , has made himself master of Hebrew , and has not shrunk from studying Sanskrit , Zend , Hierogly- phics and Cuneiform Inscriptions , before he ventured on his dangerous voyage of discovery . In spite of all drawbacks , I can ...
... scholar , has made himself master of Hebrew , and has not shrunk from studying Sanskrit , Zend , Hierogly- phics and Cuneiform Inscriptions , before he ventured on his dangerous voyage of discovery . In spite of all drawbacks , I can ...
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