Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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Page viii
... Sanskrit , and of the roots of Sanskrit , so carefully collected by Pânini and other grammarians , we know as a matter of fact , or as a real fact of history , that the bulk of words used by Hindus , Persians , Greeks , Romans , Teutons ...
... Sanskrit , and of the roots of Sanskrit , so carefully collected by Pânini and other grammarians , we know as a matter of fact , or as a real fact of history , that the bulk of words used by Hindus , Persians , Greeks , Romans , Teutons ...
Page xxxiii
... Sanskrit . — Inscriptions of Piyadasi , third century B. C. - Buddhist Sanskrit . - Renaissance of San- skrit literature . - Prakrit . - Vernaculars . - Sacred Books . - Iranic class . Cuneiform Persian inscriptions . - Pehlevi . - Bask ...
... Sanskrit . — Inscriptions of Piyadasi , third century B. C. - Buddhist Sanskrit . - Renaissance of San- skrit literature . - Prakrit . - Vernaculars . - Sacred Books . - Iranic class . Cuneiform Persian inscriptions . - Pehlevi . - Bask ...
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... Sanskrit on the Veda , the professor of Hebrew on the Old Testa- ment . Lately , however , separate chairs have been created for Comparative Theology in Germany also , and even in the Roman Catholic University of Frei- burg this new ...
... Sanskrit on the Veda , the professor of Hebrew on the Old Testa- ment . Lately , however , separate chairs have been created for Comparative Theology in Germany also , and even in the Roman Catholic University of Frei- burg this new ...
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... Sanskrit under Brockhaus , and I was then reading Persian with Rückert at Berlin . Though I was a mere boy , Schelling was quite will- ing to listen to some of my criticisms , and at his request I then translated for him some of the ...
... Sanskrit under Brockhaus , and I was then reading Persian with Rückert at Berlin . Though I was a mere boy , Schelling was quite will- ing to listen to some of my criticisms , and at his request I then translated for him some of the ...
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... Sanskrit was not known then as it is now , and the whole literature on which Sâyana's great commentary on the Rig - veda is founded , was then almost entirely a terra incognita , and had first to be discovered , and to be studied from ...
... Sanskrit was not known then as it is now , and the whole literature on which Sâyana's great commentary on the Rig - veda is founded , was then almost entirely a terra incognita , and had first to be discovered , and to be studied from ...
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