Contributions to the History of the Development of the Human Race: Lectures and DissertationsTrübner & Company, 1880 - 156 страници |
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... Indian Devanagari , too , appear very probable , whereby a great number of Asiatic sys- tems of writing are referred to the same source , since not only the indigenous systems of Hindostan and Farther India , such as Bengali , Uriya ...
... Indian Devanagari , too , appear very probable , whereby a great number of Asiatic sys- tems of writing are referred to the same source , since not only the indigenous systems of Hindostan and Farther India , such as Bengali , Uriya ...
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... Indian and the African inventor , by observing the epistolary intercourse of the Europeans , were set to reflect on the possibility of writing their mother tongue ; both had an imperfect knowledge of the English alphabet . Neither of ...
... Indian and the African inventor , by observing the epistolary intercourse of the Europeans , were set to reflect on the possibility of writing their mother tongue ; both had an imperfect knowledge of the English alphabet . Neither of ...
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... Indian tribes , for the purpose of preserving their pedigrees , carved , in the order of their succession , the so - called totem , i.e. , symbolic pictures of their tribes , for which they employed figures of animals , such as the bear ...
... Indian tribes , for the purpose of preserving their pedigrees , carved , in the order of their succession , the so - called totem , i.e. , symbolic pictures of their tribes , for which they employed figures of animals , such as the bear ...
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... Indian tribes , may mean , will scarcely remain doubtful to any one who has seen the radiant hands of the sun - god on Egyptian repre- sentations , or read in the Veda hymns of the golden- handed Savitri . The red , or sometimes white ...
... Indian tribes , may mean , will scarcely remain doubtful to any one who has seen the radiant hands of the sun - god on Egyptian repre- sentations , or read in the Veda hymns of the golden- handed Savitri . The red , or sometimes white ...
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... of our own preservation ; it is perhaps only habit which makes this food appear indispensable to us at present . In ancient times , and still more in India , serious objections were notoriously raised THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE . 93.
... of our own preservation ; it is perhaps only habit which makes this food appear indispensable to us at present . In ancient times , and still more in India , serious objections were notoriously raised THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE . 93.
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