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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... letters to the Jews , from whom they were received by the Phenicians , and from the Phenicians by the Greeks . " And Augustin ( De Civit . Dei , lib . xviii , ch . xxxix , ) asserts , that " the Hebrew letters began from the law given ...
... letters to the Jews , from whom they were received by the Phenicians , and from the Phenicians by the Greeks . " And Augustin ( De Civit . Dei , lib . xviii , ch . xxxix , ) asserts , that " the Hebrew letters began from the law given ...
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... letters , re- fer us to the Egyptian and Mexican hieroglyphics as to the rudi- ments of alphabets , and assure us that necessity , convenience , or chance would produce abbreviated marks , and ultimately the al- phabetic character and ...
... letters , re- fer us to the Egyptian and Mexican hieroglyphics as to the rudi- ments of alphabets , and assure us that necessity , convenience , or chance would produce abbreviated marks , and ultimately the al- phabetic character and ...
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... letters to Moses . " The usefulness of alpha- betical characters , " says a learned author , " cannot be sufficiently estimated , Without writing , the histories of ancient times had never reached us ; and the necessary intercourses of ...
... letters to Moses . " The usefulness of alpha- betical characters , " says a learned author , " cannot be sufficiently estimated , Without writing , the histories of ancient times had never reached us ; and the necessary intercourses of ...
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... letters , properly so called , were not first taught by Moses , leaves us utterly ignorant of the first inventor of them ; and all that we are able to trace out from history concern- ing their invention , amounts to little more than ...
... letters , properly so called , were not first taught by Moses , leaves us utterly ignorant of the first inventor of them ; and all that we are able to trace out from history concern- ing their invention , amounts to little more than ...
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... letters of their alphabet are pronounced HEI , CHEI , EI ; the CH of the eight letter must be pronounced deep in the throat , CHEI . " " I sent to Damascus to see if I could procure the Grammar , Chronicles , and Calender which your ...
... letters of their alphabet are pronounced HEI , CHEI , EI ; the CH of the eight letter must be pronounced deep in the throat , CHEI . " " I sent to Damascus to see if I could procure the Grammar , Chronicles , and Calender which your ...
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