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
T represents man’s legs together, with the feet upwards, and both toes
turned outwards as upright and traverse lines, extension and man in his
temporal state, turned out of paradise, under the sky, topsy turvy, and
all things as relative to him, and the line upon which time or the manner
of reckoning the distances of actions are measured. T sounds alike in
all languages, and th and θ as in _the_, _Thebes_, and those are the
inflections of T.
The letters p, ph, ff, f, π, φ, ψ, signify material or dead parts, or
their qualities, as p divides T; ph is p high, up, or active; the digamma
φ or f, the p inflecting the gamma; and ψ actions of a lesser nature,
as growth. The p and π sound alike in all languages, ph, ff as φυω,
_fusee_, or _fun_, ψ as in _Psalms_, it being only a compound of p, and f
as the v consonant in _verb_, but these letters are farther explained in
the former treatise.
_m_ represents a man’s body and arms or wings from the top of b and d,
or the elbow part of the body, up to the neck, and the world, forms,
and things, as surrounding and belonging to man, as shall be further
explained amongst the particles. It sounds the same in all languages. _n_
is the thighs, with the parts above them, forming a traverse line, and
the vacancy betwixt the same when extended, signifying to be in, or in
existence or possession, having f and d for its auxiliaries, but before
the vowels or springs it expresses a negative or privative; and it has no
particular sound.
Ỻ, L, λ, are T or man’s legs, once put together, separated, and as
divisors of T, which signifies space or extension, are expressive of
particular lengths and breadths, and their places, qualities, &c. The L
or λ is sounded as eel or îl and Ỻ has an aspirate hissing sound in the
Welsh, Spanish, and some other dialects.
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