The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing: A Connected Narrative of the Development of the Art in Its Primeval Phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and Its Subsequent Progress to the Present DayDay and Son, 1855 - 178 Seiten |
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... important link in the history of the art of writing ; and , with such a conception of the subject , it would doubtless present a very dry and barren aspect . Even if , greatly extending the sphere of our observations , we should ...
... important link in the history of the art of writing ; and , with such a conception of the subject , it would doubtless present a very dry and barren aspect . Even if , greatly extending the sphere of our observations , we should ...
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... importance . Change , of mighty import , is being daily wrought through the medium of the art which we simply and ... important fields of investigation that the story of man's intellectual progress affords . The names of the first men ...
... importance . Change , of mighty import , is being daily wrought through the medium of the art which we simply and ... important fields of investigation that the story of man's intellectual progress affords . The names of the first men ...
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... important scientific discoveries ; but without the art of writing to record them , they would be lost as fast as achieved . The railway simply annihilates space , and the electric telegraph outstrips its speed , and even conveys ...
... important scientific discoveries ; but without the art of writing to record them , they would be lost as fast as achieved . The railway simply annihilates space , and the electric telegraph outstrips its speed , and even conveys ...
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... important epoch of the gradual creation of a system of writing . Thus , in the following pages , I shall have to seek , first , an example , of the rude primeval origin of the art in the coarse hieroglyphic , or rather simply pictorial ...
... important epoch of the gradual creation of a system of writing . Thus , in the following pages , I shall have to seek , first , an example , of the rude primeval origin of the art in the coarse hieroglyphic , or rather simply pictorial ...
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... importance which was attached to circumstances connected with the vicinity of dangerous animals , when their races were more abundant and destructive , I may mention the case of the Greek city of Clazomene , in Asia Minor , the ...
... importance which was attached to circumstances connected with the vicinity of dangerous animals , when their races were more abundant and destructive , I may mention the case of the Greek city of Clazomene , in Asia Minor , the ...
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abbreviation adopted alluded ancient Anglo-Saxon appears art of writing Assyrian became British Museum calligraphers capitals Champollion Charlemagne charter Chinese Christian civilisation coins copy cuneatic cuneiform cursive hand decorative deed demotic described distinct earliest early Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics Egyptian system Emperor engraved epoch Europe evidently example executed exhibit existing expressed fifteenth century fifth century French Gospels Gothic Greece Greek alphabet Greek writing handwriting Hebrew alphabet hieroglyphic iconographic illuminated inscriptions invention Italy kaph kind king known language later period Latin Library Lombardic manner Merovingian mode of writing modern monuments original ornamental Oscan papyrus passage Pelasgian penmanship Phoenician phonetic pictorial Plate VIII Plate XIV portion practised preserved probably progress reads records reign represented resembling Roman alphabet Roman cursive Samaritan Samaritan alphabet Saxon scribes shew shewn signs similar sound specimen Plate square Hebrew system of writing tablets tenth century termed traces uncial vellum vowels word
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Seite 81 - And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
Seite 81 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Seite 70 - In the fourteenth year, I raised the country, and assembled a great army ; with 120,000 warriors I crossed the Euphrates. Then it came to pass that Hem-ithra, king of Atesh, and Arhulena, king of Hamath, and the twelve kings of the tribes of the upper and lower country, collected their forces together, and came before me offering battle. I engaged with them, and defeated them ; their leaders, and captains, and men of war I cast into chains.
Seite 81 - 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.
Seite 39 - ... expressed, partly by figures of animals, and partly by certain marks or notes intricately knotted, revolving in the manner of a wheel, and crowded together, and curled inward like the tendrils of a vine, so as to hide the meaning from the curiosity of the profane.
Seite 13 - ... all agitated. The inhabitants of hades wept at night; and the heavens, as an expression of joy, rained down ripe grain. From the invention of writing, the machinations of the human heart began to operate; stories false and erroneous daily increased ; litigations and imprisonments sprung up ; hence, also, specious and artful language, which causes so much confusion in the world. It was for these reasons that the shades of the departed wept at night.
Seite 13 - The heavens, the earth, and the gods were all agitated. The inhabitants of hades wept at night ; and the heavens, as an expression of joy, rained down ripe grain.
Seite 139 - Bernaldez, who flourished towards the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and who wrote a chronicle of Ferdinand and Isabella, long inedited (MS.
Seite 62 - Professor Grotefend has certainly the credit of being the first who opened a gallery into this rich treasure-house of antiquity. In deciphering the names of Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, and Hystaspes, he obtained the true determination of nearly a third of the entire alphabet, and thus at once supplied a sure and ample basis for further research.
Seite 156 - It is not earlier than the fourteenth century that we find examples of private holograph letters, — that is, letters entirely written by the hand of the person whose signature they bear ; for most, indeed nearly all of the letters of eminent persons of...