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... idea was a sense of continuity , that , in- deed , this sense amounted to religion . I was standing with him at the time looking over an English landscape , and on the hill - side opposite to us was an old track which generations ago ...
... idea was a sense of continuity , that , in- deed , this sense amounted to religion . I was standing with him at the time looking over an English landscape , and on the hill - side opposite to us was an old track which generations ago ...
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... idea of God developed , prayers were framed . The songs and the prayers became traditional and were repeated from one generation to another , each generation adding something of its own . As man slowly grew more civilised , he was ...
... idea of God developed , prayers were framed . The songs and the prayers became traditional and were repeated from one generation to another , each generation adding something of its own . As man slowly grew more civilised , he was ...
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... idea of the meaning . Presently , man began to write with a stylus on baked clay tablets . Specimens of these clay books were discovered in Chaldea . One of them is now in the British Museum , and is an account of the Flood . George ...
... idea of the meaning . Presently , man began to write with a stylus on baked clay tablets . Specimens of these clay books were discovered in Chaldea . One of them is now in the British Museum , and is an account of the Flood . George ...
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... idea flourished in the temples , and among the many Egyp- tian gods was Thoth - Hermes , the Ibis - headed " Lord of the Hall of Books . " But while much of the little of ancient Egyptian literature that has come down to us is ...
... idea flourished in the temples , and among the many Egyp- tian gods was Thoth - Hermes , the Ibis - headed " Lord of the Hall of Books . " But while much of the little of ancient Egyptian literature that has come down to us is ...
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... , first taught the Greeks how to write , and from the Egyptians the Greeks ob- tained their first idea of book - making . The Greek alphabet was ایا willl2 训 darstell 25 Photo : W. A. Mansell 14 The Outline of Literature.
... , first taught the Greeks how to write , and from the Egyptians the Greeks ob- tained their first idea of book - making . The Greek alphabet was ایا willl2 训 darstell 25 Photo : W. A. Mansell 14 The Outline of Literature.
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