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Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing Charles Davy No preview available - 2018 |
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Abraham Ægypt Ægyptians æra affigned againſt alpha alphabetic writing amongſt anſwered antient benevolent Ifis book of Jafher book of Samuel Cadmus cafe circumftances confonants conjecture diſcovery Eaſtern elemental founds eſtabliſh Exod facred faid fame fecond feems fhall fhews fhould fignifies fimple fince firft firſt fome forms ftill fuch fufficient fuppofed fupport fymbolic Grecian Greece Greek alphabet Greeks hath Hebrew alphabet Hebrew language Herodotus himſelf idolatry Ifaac Ifraelites infcriptions inftance inſpired invented Jacob k ARTES labials language leaft leaſt Let our fong likewife lips Majefty miſtakes Mofes moft moſt muſt names neceffary notwithſtanding numeral powers obferved occafion opinion original paffage paſs pleaſe preſent purpoſes racters reaſon reſemblance reſpect Roman Samaritan Scei Scriptures ſeems Sigean ſome ſtill ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe Syriac tables of ftone Tacitus ters thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Trojan war underſtanding unto uſe verſe vocal powers vowels whilft whofe whoſe wifdom words written
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Page 48 - When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water...
Page 48 - And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 ^f And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses...
Page 47 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Page 47 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there : and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written ; that thou mayest teach them.
Page 47 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 126 - ... your opinion. D. Be your Majesty assured, it was my ignorance. Q. If so, Mr. Dean, God grant you his spirit, and more wisdom for the future. D. Amen, I pray God. Q. I pray, Mr. Dean, how came you by these pictures?
Page 110 - In the short space of little more than a century they became such statesmen, warriors, orators, historians, physicians, poets, critics, painters, sculptors? architects, and (last of all) philosophers, that one can hardly help considering that golden period, as a providential event in honour of human nature, to shew to what perfection, the species might ascend*.
Page 48 - And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God ; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Page 124 - Why so, Madam ? Q. You know I have an aversion to idolatry, to images and pictures of this kind. D. Wherein is the idolatry, may it please your Majesty ? Q. In the cuts resembling Angels and Saints ; nay, grosser absurdities, pictures resembling the Blessed Trinity.
Page 56 - But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.