Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Том 16Archibald Constable, 1823 |
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... dialects of Tartary , was employed in embassies which gave him the opportunity of traversing Tartary , China , and other eastern countries . At length , after a residence of seven- teen years at the court of the grand khan , the three ...
... dialects of Tartary , was employed in embassies which gave him the opportunity of traversing Tartary , China , and other eastern countries . At length , after a residence of seven- teen years at the court of the grand khan , the three ...
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... dialect . They had doubtless the arts and sciences in common with the most learned and ingenious among their con- temporaries , and perhaps some of them in greater per- fection . They had giants among them ; but whether they were ...
... dialect . They had doubtless the arts and sciences in common with the most learned and ingenious among their con- temporaries , and perhaps some of them in greater per- fection . They had giants among them ; but whether they were ...
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... dialects as at this day , can dialects be- only be determined by the rules of analogy ; and these fore the deluge . will lead us to believe , that whatever might have been the primitive language of mankind , if human nature was then ...
... dialects as at this day , can dialects be- only be determined by the rules of analogy ; and these fore the deluge . will lead us to believe , that whatever might have been the primitive language of mankind , if human nature was then ...
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... dialects , may claim the honour of being the original language of man- kind . Whatever may have been the dialect of Noah and his family , that same dialect , according to the Mosaic ac- count , must have obtained , without any ...
... dialects , may claim the honour of being the original language of man- kind . Whatever may have been the dialect of Noah and his family , that same dialect , according to the Mosaic ac- count , must have obtained , without any ...
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... dialects ( F ) spoken by the people who settled in those countries not far distant from the region where the sacred historian has fixed the original seat of mankind after the deluge . The inference then is , that if Noah and his family ...
... dialects ( F ) spoken by the people who settled in those countries not far distant from the region where the sacred historian has fixed the original seat of mankind after the deluge . The inference then is , that if Noah and his family ...
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