The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideLittle, Brown, 1902 |
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Page viii
... century , and was forwarded by the studies of William Smith in England and of Cuvier in France ; but the really efficient champion of the conception that the earth is very old was Sir Charles Lyell , who published the first edition of ...
... century , and was forwarded by the studies of William Smith in England and of Cuvier in France ; but the really efficient champion of the conception that the earth is very old was Sir Charles Lyell , who published the first edition of ...
Page x
... century , might well have made the problem of decipherment seem an utterly hopeless one . Fortunately it chanced that another people , the Persians , had adopted the Assyrian wedge - shaped stroke as the foundation of a written ...
... century , might well have made the problem of decipherment seem an utterly hopeless one . Fortunately it chanced that another people , the Persians , had adopted the Assyrian wedge - shaped stroke as the foundation of a written ...
Page xiii
... century B.C. , but it is agreed among Assyriologists that they are copies of older texts current in Babylonia for many centuries before , and it is obvious that the compilers of Genesis had access to the Babylonian PREFATORY ESSAY xiii.
... century B.C. , but it is agreed among Assyriologists that they are copies of older texts current in Babylonia for many centuries before , and it is obvious that the compilers of Genesis had access to the Babylonian PREFATORY ESSAY xiii.
Page xv
... century , largely through the instrumentality of Oriental arch¿ology . " < Arch¿ology and Classical History . We have just seen that the general trend of Oriental Arch¿ology has been reconstructive rather than iconoclastic . Equally ...
... century , largely through the instrumentality of Oriental arch¿ology . " < Arch¿ology and Classical History . We have just seen that the general trend of Oriental Arch¿ology has been reconstructive rather than iconoclastic . Equally ...
Page xvi
... century B.C. , it would be useless to expect that any events of Grecian history prior to about the 7th century B.C. could have been transmitted to posterity with any degree of historical accuracy . Notwithstanding the allurements of the ...
... century B.C. , it would be useless to expect that any events of Grecian history prior to about the 7th century B.C. could have been transmitted to posterity with any degree of historical accuracy . Notwithstanding the allurements of the ...
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