...king of the Hermesiun dynasty is jaid by the author of the present work, to have invented, according to his own genius and understanding, a particular alphabet, in order that none should know it but the sous of wisdom. Few therefore are found who understand them in our time. They took the figures...

...asserted by Bin Washih, that the first dynasty of the earliest Egyptian kings " invented, each according to his own genius and understanding, a particular alphabet, in order that none should know them but the*o«s of Wisdom. Few, therefore, are found who understand them in our time. They took the figures...

...asserted by Bin Washih that the first dynasty of the earliest Egyptian kings, " invented, each according to his own genius and understanding, a particular...these hieroglyphical alphabets became innumerable. — They were not arranged at all in the order of our letters ; but they had proper characters agreed...

...pinch, he might cut the hide with a knife and sew in a new strip at a particular place. He according to his own genius and understanding, a particular...that none should know them but the sons of wisdom ' (p. 14). Are the ' sons of wisdom ' the disciples of the wise ? The book is said to have been written...

...pinch, he might cut the hide with a knife and sew in a new strip at a particular place. He according to his own genius and understanding, a particular...that none should know them but the sons of wisdom' (p. 14). Are the ' sons of wisdom ' the disciples of the wise ? The book is said to have been written...

...ancient sages, Cleomenes, Plato, Pythagoras, Scalinus, Socrates, and Aristotle, all of them different, ' in order that none should know them but the sons of wisdom.' Consider, then, the position of a man who possesses such a book, and also can make grammata himself....