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... intellectual and spiritual enjoyment than any other book . Science and literature have taken deep root in this consecrated soil . No book furnishes so many important hints to the human mind ; gives so many clews to intellectual ...
... intellectual and spiritual enjoyment than any other book . Science and literature have taken deep root in this consecrated soil . No book furnishes so many important hints to the human mind ; gives so many clews to intellectual ...
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... noblest work of God " have been , very imperfect without speech . Nor is it easy to see how his attainments could have been so surprisingly great and rapid , or how his intellectual endowments ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE . 11.
... noblest work of God " have been , very imperfect without speech . Nor is it easy to see how his attainments could have been so surprisingly great and rapid , or how his intellectual endowments ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE . 11.
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... intellectual endowments could have been so successfully cultiva- ted , as we know they were , if he had been originally ignorant of all language . But while the nature of the case might convince us that language is of divine origin ...
... intellectual endowments could have been so successfully cultiva- ted , as we know they were , if he had been originally ignorant of all language . But while the nature of the case might convince us that language is of divine origin ...
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... intellectual and social character , and upon . individual and public prosperity , may we not say , the honour of it belongs to the Hebrews - to Moses their great Lawgiver - to the Bible ? Not until this trea- sury of knowledge was ...
... intellectual and social character , and upon . individual and public prosperity , may we not say , the honour of it belongs to the Hebrews - to Moses their great Lawgiver - to the Bible ? Not until this trea- sury of knowledge was ...
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... intellectual research , the more abundant will be the evidence of its superiority . From the comparative study of languages , from the natural history of the human race , from the whole circle of natural sciences , from early history ...
... intellectual research , the more abundant will be the evidence of its superiority . From the comparative study of languages , from the natural history of the human race , from the whole circle of natural sciences , from early history ...
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