 Hebrew, is certain; and a cursory examination of maoy old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little doubt, that the Nagari and Ethiopian letters had a similar form. It is supposed, that the Abyssinians of the Arabian stock having no letters,...  Works - Page 257by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...old Chaldean,, and sister of the Arabic and Hebrew, is certain ; and a cursory examination of many old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little...seems probable that the Ethiops of Meroe were the game people with the first Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily be shewn, with the original... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...the old Chaldean, and sister of the Arabic and Hebrew, is certain ; and a cursory examination of many old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little...stock having no letters, borrowed those of the black Pngans, whom the Greeks called Troglodytes ; and upon the whole, it seems probable that the Etkiops... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Lawyers Great Britain Biography - 1806 - 618 pages
...the old Chaldean, and sister of tbe Arabic and Hebrew, is certain ; and a cursory examination of many old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little...that the Abyssinians of the Arabian stock having no Idters, borrowed those of the black Pagans, whom the Greeks called Troglodytes ; and upon the whole,... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...compositions are never dry, tedious, 'nor disgusting; and is certain; and a cursory examination of many old inscriptions on pillars and in caves, leaves little...; and, upon the whole, it seems probable that the Et'iiops of Mcrw were the same people with th" first Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily... | |
 | Richard Millar - 1811 - 356 pages
...characters. 1 believe on the whole * Wilford on Egypt and Nile iu Asiat. Res. vol. III. that the .ZEthiops of Meroe were the same people with the first Egyptians, and consequently, as might easily be shown, with the original Hindus." vol. I. 115, 116. To prove the alliance of kindred... | |
 | Thomas Legh - Egypt - 1816 - 186 pages
...by the common appellation, Ethiopians, thus using Ethiop and Indian as convertible terms, observes that the Ethiops of Meroe were the same people with...Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily be shdwn, with the original Hindus. Third Chamber, thirty-six feet in length and eighteen feet in breadth.... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 pages
...inventors (if they were not rather the importers) of symbolical characters. I believe on the whole, that the Ethiops of Meroe were the same people with...Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily be shown, with the original Hindus. To the ardent and intrepid Mr. Bruce, whose travels are to my taste... | |
 | Sir William Jones - Asia - 1824 - 356 pages
...inventors (if they were not rather the importers) of symbolical characters. I believe on the whole, that the Ethiops of Meroe were the same people with the first Egyptians, and conseqnently, as it might easily be shown, with the original Hindus. To the ardent and intrepid Mr.... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...Abyssinians bear a manifest affinity to those of Asia." Again, discourse viii, " I believe, on the whole, that the Ethiops of Meroe were the same people with...the first Egyptians ; and consequently, as it might be easily shown, with the original Hindus." From this people came, no doubt, the knowledge and religion... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...they were not rather the importers) of symbolical characters. I believe on the whole, that the Ethiofs of Meroe were the same people with the first Egyptians, and consequently, as it might easily be shown, with the original Hindus. To the ardent and intrepid MR. BRI'CE, whose travels are to my taste,... | |
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