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... syllables Ā· VII . From which the necessary inference is , that their Speech was regulated by Accent , like that of all the rest of Mankind VIII . Origin of the Greek Drama Ā· IX . That origin was perfectly decisive of its nature ib . 381 ...
... syllables Ā· VII . From which the necessary inference is , that their Speech was regulated by Accent , like that of all the rest of Mankind VIII . Origin of the Greek Drama Ā· IX . That origin was perfectly decisive of its nature ib . 381 ...
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... syllables than of the letters of which they were composed - 393 XXI . Analogy of the Persic and Sanskrit -The ancient Greeks denoted a long syllable by writing the vowel twice XXII . Anomalies of Prosody XXIII . Abstract of the rules of ...
... syllables than of the letters of which they were composed - 393 XXI . Analogy of the Persic and Sanskrit -The ancient Greeks denoted a long syllable by writing the vowel twice XXII . Anomalies of Prosody XXIII . Abstract of the rules of ...
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... syllables obvious at a glance - 426 1. The Sanskrit has a double set of Vowels , long and short ib . Ā· 427 - ib . Ā· 2 ... syllable 4. Probability that the ancient Greeks had some character equivalent to the Hebrew Dagesh to denote that a ...
... syllables obvious at a glance - 426 1. The Sanskrit has a double set of Vowels , long and short ib . Ā· 427 - ib . Ā· 2 ... syllable 4. Probability that the ancient Greeks had some character equivalent to the Hebrew Dagesh to denote that a ...
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... syllable Xul never changes , and that the second in every case is formed by ov , the neuter of os , letter for letter , without the smallest change . If we now take the word Ashtoreth , which occurs so frequently in the Old Testament ...
... syllable Xul never changes , and that the second in every case is formed by ov , the neuter of os , letter for letter , without the smallest change . If we now take the word Ashtoreth , which occurs so frequently in the Old Testament ...
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... syllable of Nisroch , the true read- ing of which should be Nimrod . In Richardson's Persic Dictionary , we meet with the phrase Sultani Nimroz , Sultan of the Meridian , as an epithet of the sun ; and by turning to the sixth volume of ...
... syllable of Nisroch , the true read- ing of which should be Nimrod . In Richardson's Persic Dictionary , we meet with the phrase Sultani Nimroz , Sultan of the Meridian , as an epithet of the sun ; and by turning to the sixth volume of ...
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