 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...and action ; and is, therefore, eminently the language of a progressive people. The Egyptian language was a form of speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words ; and it expressed very clumsily and incompletely, by mere agglomeration, that to which the Semitic... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1848 - 784 pages
...Egyptian was a form :>t'speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute solation of words. The intrusion of foreign elements, from...Egyptian mind, which had long been mummified, acting upon i material repugnant to development, and stereotyped by colonization, by the hieroglyphic system of... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 594 pages
...and action ; and is, therefore, eminently the language of a progressive people. The Egyptian language was a form of speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words ; and it expressed very clumsily and incompletely, by mere agglomeration, that to which the Semitic... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...and action; and is, therefore, eminently the language of a progressive people. The Egyptian language in Bow Street, then a fashionable part of the capital, to Garraway's, ; and it expressed very clumsily and incompletely, by mere agglomeration, that to which the Semitic... | |
 | Lewis Grout - Zulu language - 1859 - 492 pages
...each other. The Egyptian is much less flexible and full grown than either the Semitic or Sanscrit. It was a form of speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words ; and it expressed very clumsily and incompletely, by mere agglomeration, that to which the Semitic... | |
 | Lewis Grout - Zulu language - 1859 - 564 pages
...other. The Egyptian is much less flexible and full grown than either the Semitic or Sanscrit. It waa a. form of speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words ; and it expressed very clumsily and incompletely, by mere agglomeration, that to which the Semitic... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1860 - 342 pages
...descendants of Canaan settled for a time in that country.) "The ancient Egyptian was, as we shall see, a form of speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words." (Vol. ii. p. 62.) This remark is exemplified by the Lord's Prayer " in the Sacred language of the most... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 554 pages
...commonly referred. As we now possess it, observes Bunsen, we cannot but see in it a form of speech just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words. Again, Meyer has remarked of Celtic, that in all its non-Sanscrit forms it most strikingly resembles... | |
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Egyptian language was a form of speech only just emerging from the monosyllabic state and the absolute isolation of words ; and it expressed very clumsily and incompletely, by mere agglomeration, that to which the Semitic and Japetic tongues could give... 