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... thoughts here presented are not new , he is not aware that the train of thought and illustration has ever been presented before . So far as this humble and imperfect effort may tend to such a result , his earnest desire has been to ...
... thoughts here presented are not new , he is not aware that the train of thought and illustration has ever been presented before . So far as this humble and imperfect effort may tend to such a result , his earnest desire has been to ...
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... thought , that the use of oral and written language is to be attributed to a supernatural revelation . The art most necessary for man , even from the commence- ment of his existence , must have been language . If not an indispensable ...
... thought , that the use of oral and written language is to be attributed to a supernatural revelation . The art most necessary for man , even from the commence- ment of his existence , must have been language . If not an indispensable ...
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... thought , un- less taught immediately by God , or gradually by those who had themselves been instructed . We see not how it is possible for language to have been of human invention . Its structure is too complicated and artificial . It ...
... thought , un- less taught immediately by God , or gradually by those who had themselves been instructed . We see not how it is possible for language to have been of human invention . Its structure is too complicated and artificial . It ...
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... thought visible was by pictures , symbols , and the various kinds of idea- graphic writing . But there is a marked distinction between these imperfect and elementary forms , and Alphabetical writing . This is a system which is ...
... thought visible was by pictures , symbols , and the various kinds of idea- graphic writing . But there is a marked distinction between these imperfect and elementary forms , and Alphabetical writing . This is a system which is ...
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... - Daubuz on the Revelation -- and also some valuable thoughts at the close of the last volume of Dr. Mc Knight on the Apostolical Epistles . I a very incompetent judge of matters of this sort 16 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
... - Daubuz on the Revelation -- and also some valuable thoughts at the close of the last volume of Dr. Mc Knight on the Apostolical Epistles . I a very incompetent judge of matters of this sort 16 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
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