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... these lectures , my young friends , is to call your attention to the Bible , and to exalt and honour , in 7 your estimation and my own , this great book . LECTURE I The Use of Oral and Written Language to be attributed to a Superna-
... these lectures , my young friends , is to call your attention to the Bible , and to exalt and honour , in 7 your estimation and my own , this great book . LECTURE I The Use of Oral and Written Language to be attributed to a Superna-
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... honours , I had almost said , what veneration should . we not render him ! The claims of most nations to this singular dis- covery arise solely from their supposed antiquity . And yet it is a somewhat remarkable fact , that some of the ...
... honours , I had almost said , what veneration should . we not render him ! The claims of most nations to this singular dis- covery arise solely from their supposed antiquity . And yet it is a somewhat remarkable fact , that some of the ...
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... honour of it belongs to the Hebrews - to Moses their great Lawgiver - to the Bible ? Not until this trea- sury of knowledge was unlocked , were the riches of thought diffused through the nations . It is not un- deserved homage to this ...
... honour of it belongs to the Hebrews - to Moses their great Lawgiver - to the Bible ? Not until this trea- sury of knowledge was unlocked , were the riches of thought diffused through the nations . It is not un- deserved homage to this ...
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... honour of having given the world its letters . This they might have done , and have left the field of litera- ture barren , and with all the difficulties of cultivating it to be overcome by the tedious toil of successive generations ...
... honour of having given the world its letters . This they might have done , and have left the field of litera- ture barren , and with all the difficulties of cultivating it to be overcome by the tedious toil of successive generations ...
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... honour ; a deity , not of the poet's creation , whom they worship with a pure ritual , and to whom they ascribe eternal praise . Nor need we hesitate in saying , that no work pos- sesses such literary merit generally , and has equal ...
... honour ; a deity , not of the poet's creation , whom they worship with a pure ritual , and to whom they ascribe eternal praise . Nor need we hesitate in saying , that no work pos- sesses such literary merit generally , and has equal ...
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