 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...above, so that the Egyptian scribes were on the verge of final discovery in writing. " All that was to be done was to take one simple step— boldly to discard all the non-alphabetic elements and so to leave revealed in its grand simplicity the nearly perfect alphabet, of which, without knowing... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Thompson - 1911 - 136 pages
...phonetic elements. Canon Taylor states: "All that remained to be done was to take one simple step—boldly to discard all the non-alphabetic elements, at once to sweep away the superfluous lumber" (41, p. 68). This step they never took, but continued to use eye-pictures side by side with that of... | |
 | Charles Hubbard Judd - 1926 - 370 pages
...Sedulii geminato opere, et versibus exametris et prosa conposuit. Scripsit et alia (Amdt's Tajeln.) ing of their alphabetic symbols by perplexing additions...the ideograms, the homophones, the polyphones, the syllabics, and the symbolic signs to which the Egyptian scribes so fondly clung, and so to leave revealed,... | |
 | Charles Hubbard Judd - 1926 - 364 pages
...ideogram. The plan is so cumbrous as to seem to us almost inconceivable. We have letters, syllabics, and ideograms piled up one on another in a perplexing...the ideograms, the homophones, the polyphones, the syllabies, and the symbolic signs to which the Egyptian scribes so fondly clung, and so to leave revealed,... | |
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We have letters, syllables, and ideograms piled up one on another in a perplexing confusion. So many crutches were thought necessary that walking became an art of the utmost difficulty. But all the same, in the tangled wilderness of the hieroglyphic writing... 