glyphics

The glyphics MAKE us strive, MAKE us chaff against the chains.

Burning Brightly 2009

Ancient Hindoo, Japanese and Chinese writings, as well as the hiero-glyphics of the extinct races of the North

The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World 1908

D., affords a character simple and easily formed, contrasting strongly with the cumbrous glyphics of the Chinese.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

Warburten's account of his plagiarism of the Hiero - glyphics, in his Philemon to Hydaspes,

Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A. Bentley, Samuel, 1785-1868. [from old catalog] 1812

A work paved with stars, resem - bling a composition of sapphire-stones: a symbol ivhich, perhaps, God preferred to any other, because the sapphire was, among the Egyptians, the em - blem of royalty, as may be seen in their hiero - glyphics, which the industry of the learned have preserved to us.

Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague Sutcliffe, Joseph, 1762-1856, tr 1812

"I always like," wrote Holmes, "to hear what one of my fellow countrymen, who is not a Hebrew scholar, or a reader of hiero-glyphics, but a good-humored traveler with a pair of sharp, twinkling Yankee (in the broader sense) eyes in his head, has to say about the things that learned travelers often make unintelligible, and sentimental ones ridiculous or absurd ....

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) Mark Twain 1872

"I always like," wrote Holmes, "to hear what one of my fellow countrymen, who is not a Hebrew scholar, or a reader of hiero-glyphics, but a good-humored traveler with a pair of sharp, twinkling Yankee (in the broader sense) eyes in his head, has to say about the things that learned travelers often make unintelligible, and sentimental ones ridiculous or absurd ....

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

The contrary sense would be that of a misanthrope.] [Footnote 43: When Germanicus visited the ancient monuments of Thebes, the eldest of the priests explained to him the meaning of these hiero glyphics.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

The contrary sense would be that of a misanthrope.] 43 When Germanicus visited the ancient monuments of Thebes, the eldest of the priests explained to him the meaning of these hiero glyphics.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206