...elements, was long suspected by the writer. This " idea was strengthened by his observing in a manu" script Latin-Chinese Dictionary, which classed the " characters according to their names, that in numer* P. 33, and Stq. Bbb " ons instances, one character was the root of 10 or '• 12 others, each...

...elements." He adds, that he observed in a manuscript Latin-Chinese (probably meaning to say Chinese-Latin) dictionary, which classed the characters according...formed from it by the addition of a single element." Now one would have supposed that this single element, as our author calls it, was itself the root,...

...great mass of the characters, and, like the Greek primitives of the Sanskrit dhatoos, form the bulk of the language by associating to themselves certain...addition of a single element ; thus the addition of the elemept for a hund to a primitive formed one character; that being changed for the element denoting...

...the characters of a Latin dictionary with reference to their principles of construction, he observed that in numerous instances one character was the root...which was formed from it by the addition of a single Radical. For instance, the addition of the Radical hand to a primitive formed one character, while...