The Story of the AlphabetD. Appleton, 1900 - 209 pages |
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Ægean alpha ancient appears Arabic Asia Assyrian belts called Canon Taylor century B.C. characters chief Chinese civilisation Cretan Crete culture cuneiform cursive Cypriote decipherment demotic denote depicted derived discovery dynasty Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphs engraved Eshmunazar Eteocretan Evans examples figures Greece Greek alphabet Gyllis hand Hebrew Hellenic Herodotus hieratic Hittite hundred ideograms ideographic Indian indicated Innuit inscribed inscription interpretation invention island Itzcoatl king knots known language Latin letters linear Mayas means medicine-man ments Moabite Stone monuments Mycena Mycenæan nicians Ojibwa origin papyrus Papyrus Prisse Pelasgians Persian Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonogram pictographic pictorial picture picture-writing primitive probably Professor Flinders Petrie Ptolemy purpose quipu race record relics represent rock Roman Rosetta Stone Rougé's sacred says scribe script Semitic shown side signs sounds stage syllabary syllabic symbols tablets temple theory thousand tion totem tribes uncial wampum whence words written
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Page 185 - Jesus saith, Wherever there are two, they are not without God ; and wherever there is one alone, I say, I am with him. Raise the stone, and there thou shalt find me ; cleave the wood, and there am I.
Page 113 - But all the same, in the tangled wilderness of the hieroglyphic writing the letters of the alphabet lay concealed. All that remained to be done was to take one simple step — boldly to discard all the nonalphabetic elements, at once to sweep away the superfluous lumber, rejecting all the ideograms, the homophones, the polyphones, the syllables, and the symbolic signs to which the Egyptian scribes so fondly clung, and so to leave revealed, in its grand simplicity, the nearly perfect alphabet of which,...
Page 14 - Tarky, blind in his left eye," which was done, and read by the other man to the increased astonishment of every body. Mr. Mariner then told him that, in several parts of the world, messages were sent to great distances through the same medium, and being folded and fastened up, the bearer could know nothing of the contents, and that the histories of whole nations were thus handed down to posterity, without spoiling by being kept (as he chose to express himself).
Page 173 - ... of tongues; there dwell Achaeans and there too Cretans of Crete, high of heart, and Cydonians there and Dorians of waving plumes and goodly Pelasgians. And among these cities is the mighty city...
Page 37 - ... its own significance. Red strands stood for soldiers, yellow for gold, white for silver, green for corn, and so forth, while a single knot meant ten, two single knots meant twenty, double knots one hundred, and two double knots two hundred. Such simple devices served manifold purposes. Besides their convenience in reckoning, they were used for keeping the annals of the empire of the Incas ; for transmitting orders to outlying provinces ; for registering details of the army ; and even for preserving...
Page 94 - A WAS an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, who had a great dog; C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a Drunkard, and had a red face; E was an Esquire, with pride on his brow; F was a Farmer, and followed the...
Page 173 - ... from the Hellenes only in the political and social development of their age. ...Herodotus and others take a prejudiced view when, reasoning back from the subsequent Tyrrhenian Pelasgi, they call the ancient Pelasgians a rude and worthless race, their language barbarous, and their deities nameless. Numerous traditionary accounts, of undoubted authenticity, describe them as a brave, moral, and honourable people, which was less a distinct stock and tribe, than a race united by a resemblance in manners...
Page 185 - Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shall thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Page 181 - Theon to his father Theon, greeting. It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won't take me with you to Alexandria, I won't write you a letter, or speak to you, or say good-bye to you; and if you go to Alexandria I won't take your hand or ever greet you again. That is what will happen if you won't take me. Mother said to Archelaus, 'It quite upsets him to be left behind.
Page 185 - Jesus saith, I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh was I seen of them, and I found all men drunken, and none found I athirst among them, and my soul grieveth over the sons of men, because they are blind in their heart [and see not], poor, and know not their poverty.