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 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... hundred and fifty years before Chrift . OCHUS , the Perfian general , ravaged thefe countries without forty thousand Sidonians burnt themfelves with their families and riches their own houses . The Conqueror then drove NECTA NEBUS out ...
... hundred and fifty years before Chrift . OCHUS , the Perfian general , ravaged thefe countries without forty thousand Sidonians burnt themfelves with their families and riches their own houses . The Conqueror then drove NECTA NEBUS out ...
Pagina vi
... hundred years before the Christian Æra , collected the greatest library of all antiquity , which he depofited in his palace at Alexandria , where it was burnt by CESAR's troops . Another great lofs was occafioned by the destruction of ...
... hundred years before the Christian Æra , collected the greatest library of all antiquity , which he depofited in his palace at Alexandria , where it was burnt by CESAR's troops . Another great lofs was occafioned by the destruction of ...
Pagina vii
... confumed in lefs than fix months . Thus perifhed , by fanatical mad- nefs , the ineftimable Alexandrian library , which is faid to have contained at that that time upwards of five hundred thousand volumes ; and INTRODUCTION . vi.
... confumed in lefs than fix months . Thus perifhed , by fanatical mad- nefs , the ineftimable Alexandrian library , which is faid to have contained at that that time upwards of five hundred thousand volumes ; and INTRODUCTION . vi.
Pagina viii
... hundred thousand volumes ; and from this period , barbarity and ignorance prevailed for feveral centuries . In Italy , and all over the Weft of Europe , learning was in a manner extin- guifhed , except fome fmall remains which were ...
... hundred thousand volumes ; and from this period , barbarity and ignorance prevailed for feveral centuries . In Italy , and all over the Weft of Europe , learning was in a manner extin- guifhed , except fome fmall remains which were ...
Pagina x
... hundred and forty - two books ; of this excellent work one hundred and feven books must have perished , as only thirty - five remain . Though we have an epitome of one hundred and forty books , yet this is fo fhort , that it only ferves ...
... hundred and forty - two books ; of this excellent work one hundred and feven books must have perished , as only thirty - five remain . Though we have an epitome of one hundred and forty books , yet this is fo fhort , that it only ferves ...
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The Origin and Progress of Writing,: As Well Hieroglyphic as Elementary ... Thomas Astle Volledige weergave - 1784 |
The Origin and Progress of Writing: As Well Hieroglyphic as Elementary ... Thomas Astle Volledige weergave - 1784 |
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.