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
Ah, eh, ih, oh, uh, ha, he, hi, ho, hu. These express the different
impulse or energies of the human passions and affections, and are
explained amongst the adverbs; of which species of names they seem to be.
Ai, ei, ii, oi, ui, and their transponents, signify motions local as of
moving, walking, or driving, actions and affections of generation and
growth, man out of possession, man’s visage, and affirmations of yea, and
the sun’s motion darting its rays by io; but an h is commonly added to
the radical as an additional energy.
Al, el, la, le. The extension of earth and water, or place in general,
and qualities and animal sounds as extended, as al high in alps and
altus, el low or in hell, el-egy, la-nd or surface, le or p-la-ce,
terresti-al, aquati-le, c-all, kn-ell, la-ment, le-gible.
Il, li, signify an ilation and extension of the sun’s rays, so as
to cause light, with its returns, effects, or lights below; and all
intentional qualities, and emblematically intelligence as proceeding
from the divine censory, as in îl-ation, îl-um-ine, ho-îl the sun or the
glorious light, h-îl, its flowing rays and the human race, li-ght, li-u
or colou-r, li-ke, or the action of light, îl-ustrate. Ul, lu, signify
the return or spring of the human light as extended by male and female
in their rays and race, and in a more compounded manner than li, as in
v-ul-tus or visage, r-ule or the light, lu a family.
Ol, lo, signify _all_ or place, or space extended, and the circle of
motion, as in oll or all, b-oll or ball, lo-cus place lo-st.
Am, em, ma, me. These express the existence, forms, and modes of man,
earth, and water, as material beings, as in, am, the about or existences,
am-bit, am-ple, mam, mater or mother, ma-es a field, ma-ith and ma-int,
quantity, size, and extensiveness.
Im, mi, are expressive of man’s present existence or state in this world,
with respect to his superior and more excellent qualities, than his
animal state, as in im-agination, im-mense, im-mortal, im-pulse, im-pio
to shoot upwards, im-adel to depart, mi, me, mi-di-le, me in the divided
place, that is, the line betwixt his superior and inferior beings, myn or
mi-in, by my life.
Um, mu, signify man’s spring of enlarging himself in his present state,
and at last, through death, of returning to an immortal one, as in
um-pire, h-um-an, h-um-ble, n-um-erous, mu-te, d-um-b, mu-af, the
greatest, mu-ch, mu-l-tiply, mum, mu-my, mu-se.
Om, mo, signify all forms, modes, and species, as in om-in-is all in the
lower parts, ombredd or abundance, omnific, mo-on, mo-ns or mo-untain,
mo-r the sea, mo-ral, mo-re.
An, en, na, ne. These signify the existence of earth and water or matter,
and the negative, as in an-y, the earth in, an-au, natural growth, en the
firmament, en-d, en-crease, na no matter, ne-b, nobody, or being, ne-st.
In, ni, are affirmative of existence and non existences, generally as,
in, include, in-carnation, ni or not, ni-d-ulation, ni-ght, ni-m.
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