Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing / [Anon].

  • Charles Davy
Date:
1772
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Credit: Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jed, that we are altogether at a lofs to fix even the date of this aftonifhing, if not divine, difcovery; a difcovery which, after Providence thought proper to con- trad the term of human life within the narrow boundary of feventy years be- B 2 came ftoteles decern &: o£lo prifcas fuifie A, B, r, A, E, z, I, K, A, M, N, O, II, P, X, T, T, O, et duas ab Epicharmo additas 0, X, quam a Palamede mavult. Anticlides in vEgypto inveniffe quendam nomine Menona tradit, XV annis ante Phormeum antiquiffi- mum Grseciae regem; idque monumentis adprobare conatur\ e diverfo Epigenes apud Babylonios DCCXX annorum obfervationes fydepinn, codfilibus latercu- lis infcriptas docet, gravis author imprimis ; qui mi¬ nimum Berofus & Critodemus CCCCLXXX anno¬ rum ; ex quo apparet aternu* literarum ufus. Nat. I Tift. I. vii. c. 56. Berofus lived in the time of Alexander, and Epi¬ genes in that of Auguftus. * It appears from the xcth Pfalm, (if this Pfalm be aferibed to its proper author) that the general term of human life was reduced to feventy years be¬ fore the death of Mofes; though his own life, as well as that of Jofhua, were lengthened out beyond it ; for Mofes lived to 120, and Jofhua to no years: and it is fubmitted to the reader, whether the period c£
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