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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... means of which every sound of spoken language may be reduced to unmis- takeable written signs , and every shade of thought reduced to the form of a permanent inscribed record ; a result which , when rightly considered , must be deemed ...
... means of which every sound of spoken language may be reduced to unmis- takeable written signs , and every shade of thought reduced to the form of a permanent inscribed record ; a result which , when rightly considered , must be deemed ...
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... means of which they have been preserved . What are our great modern inventions - our clocks , our railways , our electric telegraphs - to such a power as this , simple as it now appears after the accustomed use of ages ? It is true the ...
... means of which they have been preserved . What are our great modern inventions - our clocks , our railways , our electric telegraphs - to such a power as this , simple as it now appears after the accustomed use of ages ? It is true the ...
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... means of which more complex ideas , or even sentiments , in addition to mere objects , were also expressed ; and thirdly , by the representation of a sound , instead of an object , and the means by which it was first accomplished ...
... means of which more complex ideas , or even sentiments , in addition to mere objects , were also expressed ; and thirdly , by the representation of a sound , instead of an object , and the means by which it was first accomplished ...
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... means of any existing monuments , to surprise the Egyptians in the practice of the earliest stages of their system , but find them , at the epoch of the erection of the most ancient known monu- ments , prior to the time of Abraham , in ...
... means of any existing monuments , to surprise the Egyptians in the practice of the earliest stages of their system , but find them , at the epoch of the erection of the most ancient known monu- ments , prior to the time of Abraham , in ...
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... means of inscriptions on funereal urns , buildings , coins , and other monuments . Our own alphabet is but a slight modification of the Roman , so that we have now at our command , as I have shewn , the means of tracing the history of ...
... means of inscriptions on funereal urns , buildings , coins , and other monuments . Our own alphabet is but a slight modification of the Roman , so that we have now at our command , as I have shewn , the means of tracing the history of ...
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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...