 | 1827 - 790 pages
...Inscription is a masterpiece of ingenious contrivance ; and he has the honour of having been the first to demonstrate, that in the latter as well as in the...original import, were employed to represent sounds. He •was no doubt of opinion that the characters employed by the Egyptians were essentially ideographic,... | |
 | Arnold Hermann L. Heeren - 1832 - 484 pages
...inscription is a masterpiece of ingenious contrivance ; and he has the honour of having been the Jirst to demonstrate, that in the latter as well as in the...whatever may have been their original import, were emplin1ed to represent sounds." This opinion of the Edinburgh reviewer, which is merely just to the... | |
 | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren - Commerce - 1838 - 496 pages
...honour of having been the first to demonstrate, that in the latter as well as in the former, «rtaiii characters, whatever may have been their original...learned of nearly all Europe. M. Klaproth, one of ihe first scholars in Europe, says " Ledocteur Young, Anglais, est sans contredit le premier auteur... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 pages
...inscription is a masterpiece of ingenious contrivance ; and he has the honour of having been the first to demonstrate, that in the latter as well as in the...original import, were employed to represent sounds. He was no doubt of opinion that the characters employed by the Egyptians were essentially ideographic,... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux, British Museum - Antiquities - 1851 - 526 pages
...demonstrate that, in both Hieroglyphic and Demotic writings," certain characters in the proper names, whatever may have been their original import, were employed to represent sounds." Dr. Young began by observing that the Demotic legend on the ROSETTA STONE, though imperfect near the... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux, British Museum - Antiquities - 1851 - 528 pages
...demonstrate that, in both Hieroglyphic and Demotic writings, " certain characters in the proper names, whatever may have been their original import, were employed to represent sounds." Dr. Young began by observing that the Demotic legend on the ROSETTA STONE, though imperfect near the... | |
 | William Schaw Lindsay - Business & Economics - 1874 - 724 pages
...method of deciphering the hieroglyphics by determining that " certain characters in the Proper Names, whatever may have been their original import, were employed to represent sounds." This ho published, in 1819, in tho "Supplement to tho Encyclopaedia Britannica." Two years later, in 1821,... | |
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Rosetta inscription is a masterpiece of ingenious contrivance ; and he has the honour of having been the tir.-t tcr demonstrate, that in the latter as well as in the former, certain characters, whatever may have been their original import, were employed... 