Proceedings of the Philological SocietyGeorge Bell, 1854 - 9 pages Vol. 6, appendix: A dictionary of the Circassian language / by L. Loewe. |
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... probably no innovator will ever arise so tasteless as to propose the removal of the hallowed " threescore and ten . " 66 There occurs in an English book of a still earlier date than Co- verdale's Bible , an instance of the passing over ...
... probably no innovator will ever arise so tasteless as to propose the removal of the hallowed " threescore and ten . " 66 There occurs in an English book of a still earlier date than Co- verdale's Bible , an instance of the passing over ...
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... probably , more than any other circumstance what- ever , which has tended to keep to one common standard a language which is now spoken by so many millions , scattered over so many lands . This fixity of expression , however , while of ...
... probably , more than any other circumstance what- ever , which has tended to keep to one common standard a language which is now spoken by so many millions , scattered over so many lands . This fixity of expression , however , while of ...
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... probably have met with no more complimentary a description at Vienna ten years ago . Cyrus the Great , whom the inscription recognizes as of the family of Darius , without however in any way ascribing to him that heroic character or pre ...
... probably have met with no more complimentary a description at Vienna ten years ago . Cyrus the Great , whom the inscription recognizes as of the family of Darius , without however in any way ascribing to him that heroic character or pre ...
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... probably prevented them from doing that which Astyages thought would have been the natural thing , -making one of their own body ( Harpagus himself for instance ) the successor ( Herod . i . 129 ) ; and these considerations doubtless ...
... probably prevented them from doing that which Astyages thought would have been the natural thing , -making one of their own body ( Harpagus himself for instance ) the successor ( Herod . i . 129 ) ; and these considerations doubtless ...
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... probably more will be detected by a reader whose attention has been once called to the subject t . The narrative of Herodotus represents the cadastral system intro- * See the passage of Ctesias quoted above in the last note , and the ...
... probably more will be detected by a reader whose attention has been once called to the subject t . The narrative of Herodotus represents the cadastral system intro- * See the passage of Ctesias quoted above in the last note , and the ...
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Page 16 - Says Darius the king : — There was not a man, neither Persian, nor Median, nor any one of our family, who would dispossess of the empire that Gomates the Magian.
Page 16 - I firmly established the kingdom, both Persia and Media, and the other provinces, as in the days of old ; thus I restored that which had been taken away. By the grace of Ormazd I did this. I laboured until I had firmly established our family as in the days of old. I laboured, by the grace of Ormazd, (in order) that Gomates the Magian might not supersede our family.
Page 69 - ag' commonly loses the g, and is written a; as ' tha iad a' deanamh' they are doing. Between two vowels, the a is dropped, and the g is retained, as ' ta mi 'g iarruidh
Page 15 - I made the following declaration in that inscription: "[Thus] saith Darius the King; Eight of my race were kings before [me]; I am the ninth. In two lines have we been kings.
Page 133 - For one wink of your powerful eye Must sentence him to live or die. His fiddle is your proper purchase, Won in the service of the churches ; And by your doom must be...
Page 15 - Says DARIUS the King : — ORMAZD granted me the empire. ORMAZD brought help to me so that I gained this empire. By the grace of ORMAZD I hold this empire. 10 Says DARIUS the King : — This (is) what was done by me, before I became King. He who was named CAMBYSES' the son of CYRUS of our race, he was here King before me.
Page 16 - The crown that had been wrested from our race, that I recovered ; I established it firmly ; as in the days of old, thus I did. The rites which Gomates, the Magian, had introduced. I prohibited. I reinstituted for the state the sacred chants and sacrificial worship, and confided them to the families which Gomates, the Magian, had deprived of those offices.
Page 131 - I. built a castle at Linlithgow, which in English is called a Pele." The word is the Celtic pill, which Davies translates " castrum, propugnaculum." It is still used in the Isle of Man, and is found in the Pile of Fouldray and other names of places. Hobelarii.—" Comp
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