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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 101

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3.,but accompanied there by a second, belongingto the dove: viz. ^U?- *li, nam hamam^ moans orcooes the dove. The devices, in these adjoiningcartouches, face each other; and the legends,accordingly, are written both ways. The prac- * When we find the same words, letter for letter, and in a sense… … Leo.»j^5 har, Gannivit. Uj na?n, i. q. i^Uan, Gemuit.Mourns, cooes. V^^__0/ At*,r^, hamam, Coy^ PN lumba, turlur. The dove: the turtle-dove. tice of writing, indifferently, from right to left,and from left to right, will be found general, notin Egypt only, but in all the primitive nationsand idioms…

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