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The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia (1851)

Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 134

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m one monosyllable. I opened the lexicon,however, at the root ^^s tis, and, to his greatsurprize and my own as great satisfaction, readthe primary definition: viz. Exercuit et ob-sequentem reddidit equum^ Exercising andtaming the horse. That the one word should thusgive the double action of the… … EGYPTIAN FIG-CARDEN- THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. Ill proof, which it is easier to indicate than tocompute. The Unicorn. Notwithstanding the consentient testimoniesof the ancients, who have described, and ofmodern travellers, who profess to have seen, theanimal, the existence of the unicorn, — a…

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