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The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia (1851)

Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 100

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ost successful in appro-priating it. The discovery itself, however, wouldseem coeval with the history of man; and hiero-glyphics, the interpreters of the first writtenlanguage. We proceed with examples of their interpre-tative uses, beginning with figures of animals,in Pharaonic cartouches of the… … — CJ, nahhat, Rugiens Ico. A roaring lion. Hieroglyphic publislied by the Egyptian Society, pi. 68. facing the head cijI^j, nahhat^ Eugiens ho: aroaring Imi: or the lion roars. Roaring as aliony — mdiardson. Or, taken substantively,ij:,^i£^l, Leo. A lion. Nos. 2. and 3. Subject: in both…

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