Greeko-Slavonic: Ilchester Lectures on Greeko-Slavonic Literature and Its Relation to the Folk-lore of Europe During the Middle Ages |
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Page 202 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...
Page 240 - THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib), KING OF ASSYRIA, BC 681-668. Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection ; together with...
Page 239 - Its peculiar and popular character will make it attractive to general readers. Mr. Hershon is a very competent scholar. . . . Contains samples of the good, bad, and indifferent, and especially extracts that throw light upon the Scriptures."— British Quarterly Review.
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Page 234 - We have, however, in a concise and readable form, a history of the researches into the sacred writings and religion of the Parsis...
Page 240 - There is much to attract the scholar in this volume. It does not pretend to popularise studies which are yet in their infancy. Its primary object is to translate, but it does not assume to be more than tentative, and it offers both to the professed Assyriologist and to the ordinary non-Assyriological Semitic scholar the means of controlling its results.
Page 241 - Chinese studies by his digest of the doctrines of Confucius. The value of this work will be perceived when it is remembered that at no time since relations commenced between China and the West has the former been so powerful — we had almost said aggressive — as now. For those who will give it careful study, Mr. Faber's work is one of the most valuable of the excellent series to which it belongs.