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... present world , or upon the agency and power by which these desirable results are secured ; we shall be at no loss to see that the world in which we live is under everlasting obligations to a super- natural revelation . In this ...
... present world , or upon the agency and power by which these desirable results are secured ; we shall be at no loss to see that the world in which we live is under everlasting obligations to a super- natural revelation . In this ...
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... present century would present much the same account , while they seem to hesitate in expressing the opinion that the Hebrew is the mother tongue . We learn from them that the modern languages of Europe , together with the Gothic ...
... present century would present much the same account , while they seem to hesitate in expressing the opinion that the Hebrew is the mother tongue . We learn from them that the modern languages of Europe , together with the Gothic ...
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... present day ; and should some gigantic mind penetrate the mysteries of sound , embody them and give them form , and present to us our simple Alphabet , the first lesson of our childhood , and explain to us its combinations and its uses ...
... present day ; and should some gigantic mind penetrate the mysteries of sound , embody them and give them form , and present to us our simple Alphabet , the first lesson of our childhood , and explain to us its combinations and its uses ...
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... present day ; and they are almost useless and silent , because they represent none of the elements of articulation , and bear no analogy to any other system , whether ancient or modern . Whatever may have been their learning of other ...
... present day ; and they are almost useless and silent , because they represent none of the elements of articulation , and bear no analogy to any other system , whether ancient or modern . Whatever may have been their learning of other ...
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... present day . With one exception all the Hebrew letters are found in the decalogue . Every guttural , labial , lingual , and dental sound is here disclosed . Nor is it less worthy of note , that not an instance is known in which any man ...
... present day . With one exception all the Hebrew letters are found in the decalogue . Every guttural , labial , lingual , and dental sound is here disclosed . Nor is it less worthy of note , that not an instance is known in which any man ...
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