Illustrations of Biblical Literature Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings ...: Including Biographical Notices of Translators and Other ... Biblical Scholars, Volume 1Carlton, 1856 - Bible |
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... hundred , but a thousand times as many , as of the Pal- myrene monuments , will , I fear , remain undeciphered till the day of judgment . " + * Clarke's Bibliographical Miscellany , vol . i , p . 6. Lond . 1806. 8vo . • Michaelis ...
... hundred , but a thousand times as many , as of the Pal- myrene monuments , will , I fear , remain undeciphered till the day of judgment . " + * Clarke's Bibliographical Miscellany , vol . i , p . 6. Lond . 1806. 8vo . • Michaelis ...
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... hundred and fifty years before the Christian era , informs us , ( lib . v , ) that sheep skins and goat skins were made use of in writing by the ancient Ionians . Mr. Yeates even thinks it exceed- ingly probable that the very autograph ...
... hundred and fifty years before the Christian era , informs us , ( lib . v , ) that sheep skins and goat skins were made use of in writing by the ancient Ionians . Mr. Yeates even thinks it exceed- ingly probable that the very autograph ...
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... hundred feet in length . This singular work is said to have been consumed in the dreadful fire which happened at Constantinople , in the fifth century , and destroyed nearly the whole city , together with the library , contain- ing ...
... hundred feet in length . This singular work is said to have been consumed in the dreadful fire which happened at Constantinople , in the fifth century , and destroyed nearly the whole city , together with the library , contain- ing ...
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... hundred and fifty - seven years before the Christian era , but was in use among the Irish at a much later period . * It is highly probable also , that several of the prophets wrote upon tablets of wood , or some similar substance ...
... hundred and fifty - seven years before the Christian era , but was in use among the Irish at a much later period . * It is highly probable also , that several of the prophets wrote upon tablets of wood , or some similar substance ...
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... hundred years before the Christian era , speaks of writing with ink : ( ch . xxxvi , 18 :) Then Baruch answered them ; He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth , and I wrote them with ink in the book . " The term deev , used ...
... hundred years before the Christian era , speaks of writing with ink : ( ch . xxxvi , 18 :) Then Baruch answered them ; He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth , and I wrote them with ink in the book . " The term deev , used ...
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