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... thousand gods - The castes - A feat of memory - The Buddhist scriptures - The early days of Gautama - The Gospel of Buddha - The Books of Confucius - The literary and religious ideals of China - The Book of Zoroaster - The teachings of ...
... thousand gods - The castes - A feat of memory - The Buddhist scriptures - The early days of Gautama - The Gospel of Buddha - The Books of Confucius - The literary and religious ideals of China - The Book of Zoroaster - The teachings of ...
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... thousand miles away , and then suddenly you realise that his London was this London and there has been no violent change but only a gradual shifting and growth and redistribution . And again in the thought is the very root of the ...
... thousand miles away , and then suddenly you realise that his London was this London and there has been no violent change but only a gradual shifting and growth and redistribution . And again in the thought is the very root of the ...
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... thousands of years before the Bible . The Chaldeans used what are called cuneiform characters . The word " cuneiform " is derived from the Latin cuneus , which means a wedge . Each character is composed of a wedge or a combination of ...
... thousands of years before the Bible . The Chaldeans used what are called cuneiform characters . The word " cuneiform " is derived from the Latin cuneus , which means a wedge . Each character is composed of a wedge or a combination of ...
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... thousand years before Moses and two thousand years before the compilation of the Indian Vedas . It is two thousand five hundred years older 1 The authority for the date of Ptah - Hotep is Revue Archæol . , 1857 . than Homer and ...
... thousand years before Moses and two thousand years before the compilation of the Indian Vedas . It is two thousand five hundred years older 1 The authority for the date of Ptah - Hotep is Revue Archæol . , 1857 . than Homer and ...
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... thousand years before Christ . Buddha lived towards the end of the sixth century B.C. , and his teaching caused the production of an immense Indian theo- logical literature , written either on dressed skins or prepared palm - leaves ...
... thousand years before Christ . Buddha lived towards the end of the sixth century B.C. , and his teaching caused the production of an immense Indian theo- logical literature , written either on dressed skins or prepared palm - leaves ...
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