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Expressions et termes fréquents
according aham aiguillon alphabet already shown Anacalypsis ancient appears aqua aspirate h believe bouc bouche boucher breath Buddha called after water composed confirmed consequently consonants conventionally cravat definite article derived dialects dictionary difference in meaning different forms discover discovery Donnegan Dugald Stewart easy to perceive English word etymologists etymology euphonic expressed alike follows French word German give Greek Grimm's law hand happens Hebrew Hence hitherto horn human speech idea called implies motion instance interchange karava Latin learned letters Littré Max Müller mèche mistake nasal sound never notice noun observe obtained origin of language Parkhurst passage philologists primary sense primary signification pronoun proof radical raven reader regarded representing the aspirate river root Roquefort Sanskrit Saxon says Sequana serves to show spiritus asper suivre suppose thing traceable traced understood verb vowel whence witness word for water word meaning
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Page xxvii - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 340 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page xxii - It was remarked, that no physician in Europe, who had reached forty years of age, ever, to the end of his life, adopted Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood, and that his practice in London diminished extremely, from the reproach drawn upon him by that great and signal discovery. So slow is the progress of truth in every science, even when not opposed by factious or superstitious prejudices!
Page 251 - Raven means a shouter, a caller, a crier. It might have been applied to many birds ; but it became the traditional and recognised name of one, and of one only.
Page 24 - OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Page 19 - We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan' Deities, male and female, melt into each other, and at last into one or two; for it seems...
Page 389 - Greece, and was promulgated over all the sea-coast of Europe, from whence it extended itself into the inland provinces. It was established in Gaul and Britain, and was the original religion of this island, which the Druids in after times adopted.
Page 277 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Page 250 - Latin; and before it took the recognised meaning of hearing, it meant to sound, to ring. When a noise 'was to be heard in a far distance, the man who first perceived it might well have said I ring...
Page 154 - Hebrew Lexicon ": " I find myself obliged to refer Tammuz, as well as the Greek and Roman Hercules, to that class of idols which were originally designed to represent Hie promised Saviour (Christ Jesus), the desire of all nations. His other name, Adonis, is almost the very Hebrew word ' Our Lord,' a well-known title of Christ."4 So it seems that the ingenious and most learned orthodox Dr.