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... language . And how could man ever have invented articulate speech ? Universal observation shows that children learn ... language to have been of human invention . Its structure is too complicated and artificial . It must have required ...
... language . And how could man ever have invented articulate speech ? Universal observation shows that children learn ... language to have been of human invention . Its structure is too complicated and artificial . It must have required ...
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... language . But while the nature of the case might convince us that language is of divine origin , when we look into the Mosaic history , that conviction must be con- firmed ... languages are investigated , 12 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
... language . But while the nature of the case might convince us that language is of divine origin , when we look into the Mosaic history , that conviction must be con- firmed ... languages are investigated , 12 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE .
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... language spoken in Canaan before the time of Joshua ; that it was the language of Adam and the language of God . God , " says he , " was the first founder of it , and Adam was the first speaker of it . It began with the world and the ...
... language spoken in Canaan before the time of Joshua ; that it was the language of Adam and the language of God . God , " says he , " was the first founder of it , and Adam was the first speaker of it . It began with the world and the ...
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... languages are to be con- sidered as dialects of one now lost . I am at a loss to understand the ground of this uncertainty . The Chaldee and Syriac were formerly one language , only they were written with a different character ; and ...
... languages are to be con- sidered as dialects of one now lost . I am at a loss to understand the ground of this uncertainty . The Chaldee and Syriac were formerly one language , only they were written with a different character ; and ...
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... solely from their supposed antiquity . And yet it is a somewhat remarkable fact , that some of the most ancient nations remained destitute of this art long after it had prevailed in adjacent countries . 2 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE . 15.
... solely from their supposed antiquity . And yet it is a somewhat remarkable fact , that some of the most ancient nations remained destitute of this art long after it had prevailed in adjacent countries . 2 ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE . 15.
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