The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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Page 81
... characters called Dilberjin , which were used in Khátà : he had • feen them , he says , and found them to consist ' of forty - one letters , a diftinct fymbol being ap- propriated to each long and short vowel , and ' to each confonant ...
... characters called Dilberjin , which were used in Khátà : he had • feen them , he says , and found them to consist ' of forty - one letters , a diftinct fymbol being ap- propriated to each long and short vowel , and ' to each confonant ...
Page 124
... characters in question be really alphabetical , they were probably secret and facerdotal , or a mere cypher , perhaps , of which the priests only had the key . They might , I imagine , be decyphered , if the language were certainly ...
... characters in question be really alphabetical , they were probably secret and facerdotal , or a mere cypher , perhaps , of which the priests only had the key . They might , I imagine , be decyphered , if the language were certainly ...
Page 149
... characters of their wifer ancestors . As to the table and bufts of Isis , they feem to be given up as modern forgeries ; but , if they were indifputably genuine , they would be nothing to the purpose ; for the letters on the buft ap ...
... characters of their wifer ancestors . As to the table and bufts of Isis , they feem to be given up as modern forgeries ; but , if they were indifputably genuine , they would be nothing to the purpose ; for the letters on the buft ap ...
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