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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... preserving and extending every branch of knowledge , and daily carrying the thoughts of the wisest into regions where ... preserved by a few conventional signs - those of Homer , of Moses , of Hesiod , of Herodotus - are those which our ...
... preserving and extending every branch of knowledge , and daily carrying the thoughts of the wisest into regions where ... preserved by a few conventional signs - those of Homer , of Moses , of Hesiod , of Herodotus - are those which our ...
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... preserved in the mystic signs of a hieroglyphic or alphabetic system of writing , have reached us in all the purity and grandeur of their antique simplicity , unsullied ( as mere traditions would have been ) by the long dark ages of ...
... preserved in the mystic signs of a hieroglyphic or alphabetic system of writing , have reached us in all the purity and grandeur of their antique simplicity , unsullied ( as mere traditions would have been ) by the long dark ages of ...
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... preserved ; and we shall therefore have to examine those of widely different regions , in order to obtain specimens of each important epoch of the gradual creation of a system of writing . Thus , in the following pages , I shall have to ...
... preserved ; and we shall therefore have to examine those of widely different regions , in order to obtain specimens of each important epoch of the gradual creation of a system of writing . Thus , in the following pages , I shall have to ...
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... preserving their original import as direct pictographs . We shall accompany the Chinese system beyond this phase , to that of such excessive departure from the original forms of the objects , that the pictographs become in appearance ...
... preserving their original import as direct pictographs . We shall accompany the Chinese system beyond this phase , to that of such excessive departure from the original forms of the objects , that the pictographs become in appearance ...
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... preservation of apparently mere objectless irregularities . The Chinese at a particular period reduced their pictorial characters in an analogous manner to regular forms , all comprised of right angles or straight lines . We shall find ...
... preservation of apparently mere objectless irregularities . The Chinese at a particular period reduced their pictorial characters in an analogous manner to regular forms , all comprised of right angles or straight lines . We shall find ...
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abbreviated adopted alluded ancient Anglo-Saxon appears art of writing Assyrian became British Museum calligraphers capitals Champollion Charlemagne charter Chinese Christian civilisation coins Colonel Rawlinson Coptic copy cuneatic cuneiform decorative deed demotic described distinct earliest early Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics Egyptian system Emperor engraved epoch Europe evidently examples executed exhibit existing expressed fifteenth century fifth century figure Gospels Gothic Greece Greek alphabet Greek writing Hebrew alphabet iconographic illuminated inscriptions invention Italy kaph kind king Klaproth known language later period Latin letters manner means Merovingian Mexican mode of writing modern monuments original ornamental Oscan papyrus passage Pelasgian Persian Phoenician phonetic phonetic characters pictorial portion practised preserved probably progress records reign represented resembling Roman alphabet Roman cursive Rosetta stone Samaritan Samaritan alphabet Saxon scribes shew shewn signs similar sound specimen Plate syllabic symbolic 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...