The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... Hieroglyphics deciphered , 147 . 149 to 157 ; 145. Heavens and Hells , 158 to 161 . Priesthood , 163 to 168. Egyptian Women , 168 , 195 . Transmigration , 158 , 160 . 176. Pantheism , 175 , 195 . Temples , 182 to 194 ; 196 . CHINA ...
... Hieroglyphics deciphered , 147 . 149 to 157 ; 145. Heavens and Hells , 158 to 161 . Priesthood , 163 to 168. Egyptian Women , 168 , 195 . Transmigration , 158 , 160 . 176. Pantheism , 175 , 195 . Temples , 182 to 194 ; 196 . CHINA ...
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... hieroglyphic writing have yet been discovered in India . But Bruce , the traveller , says that the language spoken at Masuah , not far from Meroƫ , is substan- tially Sanscrit . Many places mentioned by Mungo Park , in his Second ...
... hieroglyphic writing have yet been discovered in India . But Bruce , the traveller , says that the language spoken at Masuah , not far from Meroƫ , is substan- tially Sanscrit . Many places mentioned by Mungo Park , in his Second ...
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... are rejected as fabulous ; but the great antiquity of their country is proved beyond dispute by sculptures and hieroglyphic writing , cut into 146 PROGRESS OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS . 146, 148, 188 Hieroglyphics deciphered, 147 Gods and Goddesses,
... are rejected as fabulous ; but the great antiquity of their country is proved beyond dispute by sculptures and hieroglyphic writing , cut into 146 PROGRESS OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS . 146, 148, 188 Hieroglyphics deciphered, 147 Gods and Goddesses,
Page 147
... hieroglyphics . The base of an obelisk , with an inscription in Greek and in hieroglyphics , was afterward discovered at Philoe . The names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra in hieroglyphics were well preserved , and the letters common to both ...
... hieroglyphics . The base of an obelisk , with an inscription in Greek and in hieroglyphics , was afterward discovered at Philoe . The names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra in hieroglyphics were well preserved , and the letters common to both ...
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... hieroglyphics . He dis- covered that the alphabet consisted of images of external objects , and represented the first letter of that object's name in the common Egyptian language ; as if in English we should make a dog for D , a cat for ...
... hieroglyphics . He dis- covered that the alphabet consisted of images of external objects , and represented the first letter of that object's name in the common Egyptian language ; as if in English we should make a dog for D , a cat for ...
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