Hieroglyfic: or, a Grammatical Introduction to an Universal Hieroglyfic LanguageJones, Rowland
Philosophy
Hieroglyfic: or, a Grammatical Introduction to an Universal Hieroglyfic Language
Jones, Rowland
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages -- Early works to 1800
The letters a, e, h, ε, η, Η, in their primary sense signify the male and
female posteriors, the clitoris, erectores, &c. the impulse and springs
of generation, and the earth and water place of man; whence a came to be
an expression for the element earth or matter and things hard, rough,
or interjectory, and ε for the element of water and any feminine, soft,
or passive parts or things, but the interjectory aspirate e or _he_ is
masculine, and the ε has one spring resembling that of rain. The a has
properly two sounds, as in _animal_, _have_, or _name_, but not that
of o or the northern a in _all_; the masculine e or he has an aspirate
sound, as in _hero_, and a mute one, as in _echo_; and the feminine ε
was originally sounded soft, like the French cedill ç, as in _fleece_,
_vice_, and the use of this character and sound ought to be continued or
the soft c should be marked with a cedill to prevent the confusion of the
hard and soft sounds of c; but more of this elsewhere.
The letters c, k, q, g, γ, wh, ch, κ, χ, Ξ, ξ signify actions of
different sorts and degrees, viz. c as the half of o, signifying motion,
and k and q, as significant of its sound, signify the modes of common
local motions or actions; and the hard c also represents half the round
of the posteriors, as o doth the whole of the male and female together,
as the feminine or soft c doth the other half; g or γ represent the
testicles or half the gamma, f being the other half, and the generative
and growing parts of man and nature; and the rest are their gutteral
inflections expressive of animal sounds and actions. The palatals should
be sounded hard and short, as in _quick_, the soft c in some cases as the
feminine ε before explained, and s before the vowel i, the superlative
gutteral sorts, as the wh in _where_, _why_, and the Welsh _chwa_,
_chwant_, and g or γ as in _egg_, _edge_. All these characters are
nothing more than compounds of c, h, s, as will be shewn hereafter.
The letters d and b put together, thus, db, as compounds of i and o, or
length and breadth, are expressive of man and woman’s body part, from
the thigh to the part of the body which the elbow reaches, and all other
living beings so extended, as τ does the extension of matter, but being
again divided into d and b, they express living things, or the qualities
of parts and diminutives of bodies, and emblematically spirits and
privatives, as p does parts of matter, as divisor of τ. The d and b ought
to be sounded alike in all languages, as, _de_, _be_, and dd, as _the_,
but letters are farther explained in the former treatise.
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