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... origin to the Bible , or to which the Bible will not be found to be a powerful auxiliary . Whether we consider its influence upon an oral and written language ; upon history and literature ; upon laws and government ; upon civil and ...
... origin to the Bible , or to which the Bible will not be found to be a powerful auxiliary . Whether we consider its influence upon an oral and written language ; upon history and literature ; upon laws and government ; upon civil and ...
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... origin of this art . * It The researches of the most accredited philologists go far to support this opinion . The more critically * This topic is discussed at length by Herder on the Origin of Language ; by Shuckford in his Connexions ...
... origin of this art . * It The researches of the most accredited philologists go far to support this opinion . The more critically * This topic is discussed at length by Herder on the Origin of Language ; by Shuckford in his Connexions ...
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... Origin of Laws , Arts and Sciences , remarks , that " the comparison of the Phoenician and Greek Alphabets would alone be sufficient to convince us of this . It is visible that the Greek characters are only the Phoenician letters turned ...
... Origin of Laws , Arts and Sciences , remarks , that " the comparison of the Phoenician and Greek Alphabets would alone be sufficient to convince us of this . It is visible that the Greek characters are only the Phoenician letters turned ...
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... Origin of Laws - Dugald Stewart's Dissertation prefixed to the Encyclopędia Britannica - the Edinburgh Review for 1836 , -the works of Light- foot - Astle on the Origin and Progress of Writing - Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses ...
... Origin of Laws - Dugald Stewart's Dissertation prefixed to the Encyclopędia Britannica - the Edinburgh Review for 1836 , -the works of Light- foot - Astle on the Origin and Progress of Writing - Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses ...
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... origin of the art is to be attributed to God himself , and that he was the original instructor of Moses during the forty days in which he was upon the mount ? It would be natural to suppose , if a written language were thus discovered ...
... origin of the art is to be attributed to God himself , and that he was the original instructor of Moses during the forty days in which he was upon the mount ? It would be natural to suppose , if a written language were thus discovered ...
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