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... evidence in favour of their claims except this . On the contrary , the best authorities dispute their pretensions . With regard to Egypt , more may be said in invalidating its claims to this invention than has been said against those of ...
... evidence in favour of their claims except this . On the contrary , the best authorities dispute their pretensions . With regard to Egypt , more may be said in invalidating its claims to this invention than has been said against those of ...
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... evidence of this , in the mere fact that the first oral language was the Hebrew ? If the Hebrew language was the language originally im- parted to men ; if it was preserved through all the corruptions of the antediluvian world , through ...
... evidence of this , in the mere fact that the first oral language was the Hebrew ? If the Hebrew language was the language originally im- parted to men ; if it was preserved through all the corruptions of the antediluvian world , through ...
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... evidence that they were not purely hieroglyphic . God now required Moses to engrave on the mitre of Aaron letters , as distinctly as had heretofore been the hieroglyphic representations of a signet . Now , whence is this perfect silence ...
... evidence that they were not purely hieroglyphic . God now required Moses to engrave on the mitre of Aaron letters , as distinctly as had heretofore been the hieroglyphic representations of a signet . Now , whence is this perfect silence ...
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... , as a peculiarity that distinguished it from his own , as appears from Job viii , 8 , 9 : and in the second place , there is no evidence that the age of Job himself was such as to justify the remark , that he 24 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
... , as a peculiarity that distinguished it from his own , as appears from Job viii , 8 , 9 : and in the second place , there is no evidence that the age of Job himself was such as to justify the remark , that he 24 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
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... evidence would it offer to the Jewish people of the divine origin of the moral law , when these tables were presented to them , inscribed with mysterious and living characters ! If Moses himself was unacquainted with the art of writing ...
... evidence would it offer to the Jewish people of the divine origin of the moral law , when these tables were presented to them , inscribed with mysterious and living characters ! If Moses himself was unacquainted with the art of writing ...
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