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... letters were originally vowels * ; and there appears no reafon to doubt but the three correfponding Hebrew letters were alfo vowels + . But neither in the Arabic nor Perfian ( which would appear to us more extraordinary if the fame ...
... letters were originally vowels * ; and there appears no reafon to doubt but the three correfponding Hebrew letters were alfo vowels + . But neither in the Arabic nor Perfian ( which would appear to us more extraordinary if the fame ...
Page 84
... letters , and any fa- miliar ufe of them in Greece , was , by the most moderate accounts , between four and five hundred years . Yet the information remain- ing to us concerning the origin and progrefs of Grecian letters , con- fidered ...
... letters , and any fa- miliar ufe of them in Greece , was , by the most moderate accounts , between four and five hundred years . Yet the information remain- ing to us concerning the origin and progrefs of Grecian letters , con- fidered ...
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... letters . Examples of Cadmeian letters , thus accom- modated to Grecian fpeech , were yet remaining in the hiftorian's time ; who faw them himself on fome tripods in the temple of Apollo Ifmenius at Thebes , and has reported the ...
... letters . Examples of Cadmeian letters , thus accom- modated to Grecian fpeech , were yet remaining in the hiftorian's time ; who faw them himself on fome tripods in the temple of Apollo Ifmenius at Thebes , and has reported the ...
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