 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 532 pàgines
...anything more than the common elements of such writing to connect it with Egyptian hieroglyphics, adds : " That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered...the American Champollion in the path of discovery." 1 Ancient Egypt, 12th Edition, p. 28. 2 Arandale and Bonomi's Antiquities, British Museum, p. 13. Among... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 656 pàgines
...anything more than the common elements of such writing to connect it with Egyptian hieroglyphics, adds : " That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered...itself, is unknown. And it is not likely that another Eosetta Stone will be found with its trilingual inscription to supply the means of comparison, and... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 524 pàgines
...Egyptian hieroglyphics, adds : " That it* mysterious import will ever be deciphered is scarcely to br expected. The language of the race who employed it,...itself, is unknown. And it is not likely that another Rosette Stone will be found with its trilingual inscription to supply the means of comparison, and... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pàgines
...anything more than the common elements of such writing to connect it with Egyptian hieroglyphics, adds : " That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered...that another Rosetta stone will be found with its triFio. 44 —Hieroglyphic. Writing. lingual inscription to supply the means of comparison, and to... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 686 pàgines
...anything more than the common elements of such writing to connect it with Egyptian hieroglyphics, adds : " That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered...that another Rosetta stone will be found with its triFto. 44.— Hieroglyphic Writing. lingual inscription to supply the means of comparison, and to... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 686 pàgines
...likely that another Eosetta stone will be found with its triFio. 44 .- Hieroglyphic Writing. lingual inscription to supply the means of comparison, and...the American Champollion in the path of discovery." Among the examples of ancient picture -writing illustrated in Lord Kingsborough's elaborate work on... | |
 | 1885 - 816 pàgines
...arbitrary forms of the hieroglyphics, that it was symbolical, 'and perhaps phonetic, in its character. That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered...to contemplate these mysterious monuments of a lost civilization without a strong feeling of curiosity as to who were their architects, and what is their... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1898 - 524 pàgines
...arbitrary forms of the hieroglyphics, that it was symbolical, and perhaps phonetic, in its character." That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered...to contemplate these mysterious monuments of a lost civilization, without a strong feeling of curiosity as to who were their architects, and what is their... | |
 | Eric Wertheimer - 1999 - 262 pàgines
...by the material presence of the hieroglyph, cannot be deciphered. That [the Palenque hieroglyphs'] mysterious import will ever be deciphered is scarcely...the American Champollion in the path of discovery. (History, 709) In light of this scarcity of explicit intelligibility, Prescott can only work analogically,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 2004 - 904 pàgines
...arbitrary forms of the hieroglyphics, that it was symbolical, and perhaps phonetic, in its character.87 the Mexican monarchs, crowned with the same grove...foliage, was seen a shining speck, the rival capital civilization without a strong feeling of curiosity as to who were their architects and what is their... | |
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That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered is scarcely to be expected. The language of the race who employed it, the race itself, is unknown. And it is not likely that another Rosetta stone will be found, with its trilingual inscription, to supply... 
