Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1898 - 608 pages |
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... ancient monuments , both architectural and literary , by the brilliant decipherment of un- 1 M. M.'s Translation of the Hitopadesa , Leipzig , 1844 . 28180 known languages and the patient interpreta- tion of ancient literatures PREFACE ...
... ancient monuments , both architectural and literary , by the brilliant decipherment of un- 1 M. M.'s Translation of the Hitopadesa , Leipzig , 1844 . 28180 known languages and the patient interpreta- tion of ancient literatures PREFACE ...
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... ancient literatures , whether in Egypt , Babylonia , India , or Persia , it has become possible to discover what may be called his- torical evolution , in the earliest history of mankind . This could be done and was done by introducing ...
... ancient literatures , whether in Egypt , Babylonia , India , or Persia , it has become possible to discover what may be called his- torical evolution , in the earliest history of mankind . This could be done and was done by introducing ...
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... ancient times , is not so much the work of a few individual thinkers , as the outcome of unnum- bered thoughts handed down from generation to generation as embodied in words , and at last reduced to a more or less systematic form by ...
... ancient times , is not so much the work of a few individual thinkers , as the outcome of unnum- bered thoughts handed down from generation to generation as embodied in words , and at last reduced to a more or less systematic form by ...
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... ancient and illustrious University , must be reckoned among the signs of the times , preg- nant with meaning . This lectureship , with three others in the Univer- sities of Edinburgh , St. Andrews , and Aberdeen , was founded , as you ...
... ancient and illustrious University , must be reckoned among the signs of the times , preg- nant with meaning . This lectureship , with three others in the Univer- sities of Edinburgh , St. Andrews , and Aberdeen , was founded , as you ...
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... ancient reli- gions of the East . I had at Leipzig studied Arabic under Fleischer , and 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 ...
... ancient reli- gions of the East . I had at Leipzig studied Arabic under Fleischer , and 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 ...
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