The Origin and Progress of Writing: As Well Hieroglyphic as Elementary, Illustrated by Engravings Taken from Marbles, Manuscripts and Charters, Ancient and Modern: Also, Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printingauthor; sold, 1784 - 235 pages |
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... feem even to have made foine advances beyond - this , towards the use of the more figurative and fanciful hieroglyphic . In order to defcribe a monarch who had enlarged his dominions by force of arms ; they painted a target , orna ...
... feem even to have made foine advances beyond - this , towards the use of the more figurative and fanciful hieroglyphic . In order to defcribe a monarch who had enlarged his dominions by force of arms ; they painted a target , orna ...
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... copies had been corrupted , feem to confirm the good opinion of these authors . ( 4 ) Chronograp . p . 18 , ( 5 ) Chron . Græc . p . 89 . Phenicians . Phenicians . { We shall next confider the claim of CHAP . III . 31 OF WRITING .
... copies had been corrupted , feem to confirm the good opinion of these authors . ( 4 ) Chronograp . p . 18 , ( 5 ) Chron . Græc . p . 89 . Phenicians . Phenicians . { We shall next confider the claim of CHAP . III . 31 OF WRITING .
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... famæ fi creditur , aufi manfuram rudibus vocem fignare figuris , lib . iii , v . 220 , 221 . ( 6 ) De abstinent . lib , ii , sect . 56 .. It is obfervable , that the Greek writers feem to 34 CHAP . III . ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.
... famæ fi creditur , aufi manfuram rudibus vocem fignare figuris , lib . iii , v . 220 , 221 . ( 6 ) De abstinent . lib , ii , sect . 56 .. It is obfervable , that the Greek writers feem to 34 CHAP . III . ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.
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... feem to have known no older Hermes than the fecond Hermes or Mercury , who is recorded to have lived about four hundred years after the Mezrite Taaut or Hermes ; which fecond Hermes , PLATO calls Theuth , and Counsellor and Sacred ...
... feem to have known no older Hermes than the fecond Hermes or Mercury , who is recorded to have lived about four hundred years after the Mezrite Taaut or Hermes ; which fecond Hermes , PLATO calls Theuth , and Counsellor and Sacred ...
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... feem generally agreed , that the ancient Perfians were later than many of their neighbours in civilization : it was never pretended . that they were the inventors of letters ( 1 ) .. The Arabs have inhabited the country they at present ...
... feem generally agreed , that the ancient Perfians were later than many of their neighbours in civilization : it was never pretended . that they were the inventors of letters ( 1 ) .. The Arabs have inhabited the country they at present ...
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Page 12 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Page 13 - And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
Page 12 - Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, 'All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.
Page 194 - And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie : though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Page 8 - The truth is, that every medium through which we exhibit any thing to another's contemplation, is either derived from natural attributes, and then it is an imitation; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a symbol b.
Page 178 - CO. The cumbent X was also used to signify a similar number. " As often as a figure of less value appears before a higher number, it denotes that so much must be deducted from the greater number : thus, I before V makes but four, I before X gives only nine, X preceding C produces only 90, and even two XX before C reckons for no more than 8o.
Page 169 - We have indeed but few books remaining that are written in fhorthand; but this is not furprifing, when fuch was the unhappy fituation of early ages, that either fuperftition condemned them to the flames as the works of impious magicians or necromancers, or they were left to be devoured by vermin, through ignorance and...
Page 13 - Deut. chap. vi. v. 9 ; chap. xi. v. 20 ; chap. xvii. v. 18 ; chap. xxiv. v. 1 ; chap, xxvii. v. 3, 8. By this last text, the people are commanded to write the law on stones ; and it is observable, that some of the above texts, relate to transactions previous to the delivery of the law at Mount Sinai. If Moses had been the inventor of the alphabet, or received letters from God, which till then had been unknown to the...
Page 187 - Pomponius \tticus, the friend of Cicero, was the author of a work on the actions of the great men amongst the Romans, which he ornamented with their portraits, as appears in his life by Cornelius Nepos.