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  • by European scholars of classical Latin and Greek texts. As a reaction ... literary presentation and by introducing Latin translations of Greek classical ...
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  • and made rapid progress especially in Latin and music. He received advanced ... the Church Fathers in their original language. Zwingli preached regularly ...
    22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
  • except for Metaphysics, all available by then in Latin translation, as well as with the Islamic philosophers, including Averroes and Avicenna. William ...
    11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
  • as "a kinglet, a kind of serpent." In Latin, the creature is basiliscus, and in French, it is basilique, both of which influenced the eventual ...
    12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
  • in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. ... A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The work consisted of a ...
    15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
  • Anglican Communion. It replaced the four Latin liturgical books with a single ... significantly contributed to the English language. It has been a source of ...
    28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
  • and achieved a command of Greek and Latin and was acquainted with French ... detriment of the patient's health. The Latin initials with which he disguised ...
    22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
  • adapted the Arabic alphabet to Farsi language and developed the contemporary ... the religion of Islam and the Arabic language. Arabic and Persian calligraphy ...
    19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
  • a young Jewish physician was his tutor in Latin, but he was mainly self-educated ... called Haskalah; Jews learned the German language and culture and developed ...
    14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
  • The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...
    30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
  • of religious poetry in the English language. Cowper himself suffered ... and turned some of the Fables of John Gay into Latin. Cowper was seized ...
    9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
  • of Babel, he also attempted to establish the proto-language from which all human tongues derive. His father began to teach him Latin, but ceased on discovering ...
    10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
  • An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History ... of amulet. For example: vade retro satana (Latin, "go back, Satan" ...
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  • beside the Epistle of James in several Latin manuscripts of the New Testament ... #There is also an old Latin version of the first 17 chapters which ...
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  • periods. Though there is now no known text in Latin or Greek, similarities between the Ethiopian book and references in other extant European texts suggest ...
    11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
  • faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... and sought to introduce them to the Roman (Latin) Rite. Since the Eastern ...
    24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
  • location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua, "water" and ducere, "to lead." Many aqueducts are raised above the landscape ...
    12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
  • culture, an initiator who enriched his language with the vast power, beauty ... Gongora’s contribution to the Spanish language should not be underestimated ...
    19 KB (2,991 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2023
  • themes and a series of treatises on language (Sopra la necessità di ... themes and a series of treatises on language (Sopra la necessità di ...
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  • revelations, which were translated into Latin and became popular throughout ... revelations, which were translated into Latin by Matthias, the canon of ...
    16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023

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