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An Essay Towards an Investigation of the Origin and Elements of Language and Letters; That Is, Sounds and Symbols Wherein Is Considered Their Analogy and Power to Express the Radical Ideas on Which the Primitive Language Appears to Have Been Formed

An Essay Towards an Investigation of the Origin and Elements of Language and Letters; That Is, Sounds and Symbols Wherein Is Considered Their Analogy and Power to Express the Radical Ideas on Which the Primitive Language Appears to Have Been Formed


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1772 Excerpt: ...Past. viii. the doves shewed to AEneas.--The Sybil's concealing a shining bough within her vest, and fixing that bough for the-attendants to sing and dance around it.--The rehearsal of' antient history by Anchises to his son AEneas; and Brutus renewing the rods The plant of lar-el found by Latinus.--The divining wand of Picus--The olive branch of AEneas The wreath and song of Evander The scepter rod) that shot forth branches.--The sac-red olive tree, whereinto Turnus drove his lance, and could not get it out, till assisted by Venus. By the same application we may unravel many passages in the writings of Ovid, viz. The ring and Jlaff of Mercury Minerva's olive being preferred by the gods to the horse of Neptune Penelope's web Niobe's children.--Letters worked by Philomel.--Medea's collecting herbs from various countries, putting them into a cauldron, and stirring them with a flicks that turned into an olive-branch.--Theseus finding his way out of a labyrinth by a line Hercules destroying the Lybian giant; and the Augean stable (of ignorance) cleansed by AlpheuSy ALEPH.--Erificthon's cutting down an oak, --Latona's being delivered of Apollo and Diana, leaning upon an olive tree and a palm tree--The jirjl-fruit oblations to Ceres and Vertumnus.--Jupiter and Mercury treated by Philemon and Baucis with olives in Phrygia. Also that remarkable incident related by Eustatius, of Homer's having been He was archbishop of Theflalonica, and a commentator on Homer; he wrote A, D. 1161. been brought up by a daughter of Orus, priest of IsiV; from whofe breasts honey dropped into Homer's mouth. In the night, the first sounds he uttered were the notes of nine birds; in the morning he was found playing with nine doves in bed. The oracular doves of Dodona.--This fa


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217554862
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217554865
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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