Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) HIEROGLYFIC: OR, A Grammatical Introduction TO An Universal Hieroglyfic Language; CONSISTING OF ENGLISH SIGNS and VOICES. WITH A Definition of all the Parts of the ENGLISH, WELSH, GREEK, and LATIN Languages; Some Physical, Metaphysical, and Moral cursory Remarks on the Nature, Properties, and Rights of Men and Things. And Rules and Specimens for composing an Hieroglyfic Vocabulary of the Signs or Figures, as well as the Sounds of Things, upon rational and philosophical Principles, and the primitive Meaning of Names. By ROW. JONES. “Expatiate free o’er all this Scene of Man, A mighty Maze! yet not without a Plan.” LONDON: Printed by JOHN HUGHS, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields; And sold by Messrs. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall; DAVIS, in Piccadilly; SHROPSHIRE, in Bond-Street; ELMSLEY, late VAILLANT, in the Strand; OWEN, at Temple-Bar; and CROWDER, in Pater-Noster-Row. Of whom may be had, the Origin of Language and Nations, by the same Author; Price 5s. and his Postscript 1s. in Sheets. 1768. PREFACE.