 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 356 pagina’s
...Chaldaic; but, as to the Himyrac letters, or those which we see mentioned by the name of Almusnad, we are still in total darkness ; the traveller Niebuhr...Yemen, which are said to have inscriptions on them. If those letters bear a strong resemblance to the Nagari, and if a story current in India be trne,... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1844 - 532 pagina’s
...Sir William Jones confesses and laments the ignorance of Orientalists, on this subject, to his day. " As to the Himyaric letters, or those which are mentioned...Yemen, which are said to have inscriptions on them." — Fourth Anniversary Discourse. * The question as to the high antiquity of the art of writing, among... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1844 - 540 pagina’s
...Himyaric letters, or those which are mentioned by the name of Alnuanad, ice are still in total darknett ; the traveller Niebuhr having been unfortunately prevented...Yemen, which are said to have inscriptions on them." — Fourth Anniversary Discourse. * The question as to the high antiquity of the art of writing, among... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1844 - 540 pagina’s
...Sir William Jones confesses and laments the ignorance of Orientalists, on this subject, to his day. " As to the Himyaric letters, or those which are mentioned by the name of Ahnasnad, we are still in total darkness : the traveller Niebuhr having been unfortunately prevented... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1848 - 700 pagina’s
...Chaldaick ; but, as to the Hamaiyaric letters, or those which we see mentioned by the name of Almusnad, we are still in total darkness, the traveller Niebuhr...Yemen; which are said to have inscriptions on them : if those letters bear a strong resemblance to the Nagari, and if a story current in India be true,... | |
 | Henry Welsford - 1848 - 498 pagina’s
...Chaldaic: but as to the Himyarick letters, or those which we see mentioned by the name of Almusnad, we are still in total darkness, the traveller Niebuhr...Yemen, which are said to have inscriptions on them." (Works, vol. iii. p. 55.) The Arabic alphabet at present used consists of twentyeight letters; but... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - 2000 - 544 pagina’s
...letters, or those which we see mentioned by the name of Almusnad, we are still in total darkness j the traveller Niebuhr having been unfortunately prevented...Yemen, which are said to have inscriptions on them. If those letters bear a strong resemblance to the Nagari, and if a story current in Indiabe true, that... | |
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Almasnad, we are still in total darkness ; the traveller Niebuhr having been unfortunately prevented from visiting some ancient monuments in Yemen, which are said to have inscriptions on them. 