| Clinton G. Gilroy - 1844 - 674 pages
...in front of the great Sphynx." Another writer has condensed from Rosellini, and other hierologists the following remarks : " Philologists, astronomers....to learn the origin of language and writing— of tlie calendar The ornamental arts are so much regulated by the prevailing fashion, and caprice of mankind,... | |
| Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 614 pages
...in front of the great Sphynx." Another writer has condensed from Rosellini, and other hierologists, the following remarks : " Philologists, astronomers,...motion — of the art of cutting granite with a copper qhisel, and of giving elasticity to a copper sword — of making glass with the variegated hues of... | |
| American Oriental Society - 1851 - 732 pages
...researches. A writer, whom I have before cited, has condensed from, Rosellitii, and other hierologists, the following remarks : — " Philologists, astronomers,...origin of language and writing — of the calendar and solar motion — of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to... | |
| 1852 - 598 pages
...cultivated in Egypt to a high state of perfection. Moses indeed wrote when the world had grown old. " Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...origin of language and writing — of the calendar and solar motion — of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to... | |
| Thornley Smith - 1860 - 70 pages
...tians, so that the following glowing description of it by Mr Gliddon will not be deemed exaggerated:—' Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...return to Egypt to learn the origin of language and of writing; of the calendar and solar motion ; of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel,... | |
| James Martin Peebles - 1875 - 438 pages
...distinctions of the human race existed on the first distribution of mankind throughout the earth ? "Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...origin of language and writing ; of the calendar, and solar motion ; of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 pages
...the cyclical theory does not reassert itself. Says Gliddon, who is now contradicted by Mr. Fiske : " Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...the origin of language and writing ; of the calendar and solar motion ; of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 696 pages
...the cyclical theory does not reassert itself. Says Gliddon, who is now contradicted by Mr. Fiske : " Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...the origin of language and writing ; of the calendar and solar motion ; of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to... | |
| H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 pages
...whether the cyclical theory does not reassert itself. Says Gliddon, who is now contradicted by Mr. Fiske: "Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...origin of language and writing — of the calendar and solar motion — of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel and of giving elasticity to... | |
| Tara Mata - 2008 - 102 pages
...tremendous distances are only two of the many riddles which remain unsolved to this day. GR Gliddon writes, "Philologists, astronomers, chemists, painters, architects,...the origin of language and writing, of the calendar and solar motion, of the art of cutting granite with a copper chisel, and of giving elasticity to a... | |
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