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194 HIEROGLYPHS.
compounds, is repeated about thirty-seven times. Another
group of characters, recurring fourteen times in the enchorial,
corresponded to the word Ptolemy, which occurs eleven times
in the Greek, and generally in passages in the same relative
position.1
The important knowledge gained in this branch prepared the
way for the advance to be made in the hieroglyphic, concerning
which the most extraordinary ideas continued still to infest the
learned of Europe. The Chevalier Palin,2 in 1802-4, did not
hesitate to assert that it was only necessary to translate the
Psalms of David into Chinese, and write them in the ancient
characters of that language, in order to reproduce the Egyptian
papyri, and that these contained many Biblical books. In
1806, M. Von Hammer had given to the world the translation
of the work of some Arabic charlatan,3 which professed to
explain the hieroglyphs. Lenoir, in 1S10,4 considered them to
be Hebrew documents. An anonymous author, in 1812,s
thought that the inscription of the Portico of Dendera con-
tained a translation into hieroglyphs of the 100th Psalm.
In 1816, Bailey, a Cambridge prize-essayist, only repeated
what Zoega had said in 1799.6 In 1821 appeared a translation
at Genoa of the Pamphilian obelisk, in which it was said to
contain an account of the victories of the pious over the
wicked, b.c. 4000 (!) in the reign of the sixth and seventh
1 See Young in the Encyclopaxlia Britannica, 4to, London, 1S28. Hiero-
glyphics.
- Lettres sur les Hieroglyphes, 8vo, 1802 ; Essai sur les Hieroglyphes, 8vo,
1804; Analyse de l'lnscription en Hieroglyphes du Monument trouvS &
Rosette, 8vo, Paris, 1804.
3 Ancient Alphabets, by Ahmeed Bin Abuker Bin Wahshih, 4to, London,
1806. Magaz. Encycl. 1810, p. 145.
4 Nouvelle Explication des Hieroglyphes figyptiens, Svo, Paris, 1800-16.
5 Etude des Hieroglyphes, 8vo, Paris, 1812.
6 Hieroglyphoruin Origo et Nature, Svo, Cantab. 1810.
compounds, is repeated about thirty-seven times. Another
group of characters, recurring fourteen times in the enchorial,
corresponded to the word Ptolemy, which occurs eleven times
in the Greek, and generally in passages in the same relative
position.1
The important knowledge gained in this branch prepared the
way for the advance to be made in the hieroglyphic, concerning
which the most extraordinary ideas continued still to infest the
learned of Europe. The Chevalier Palin,2 in 1802-4, did not
hesitate to assert that it was only necessary to translate the
Psalms of David into Chinese, and write them in the ancient
characters of that language, in order to reproduce the Egyptian
papyri, and that these contained many Biblical books. In
1806, M. Von Hammer had given to the world the translation
of the work of some Arabic charlatan,3 which professed to
explain the hieroglyphs. Lenoir, in 1S10,4 considered them to
be Hebrew documents. An anonymous author, in 1812,s
thought that the inscription of the Portico of Dendera con-
tained a translation into hieroglyphs of the 100th Psalm.
In 1816, Bailey, a Cambridge prize-essayist, only repeated
what Zoega had said in 1799.6 In 1821 appeared a translation
at Genoa of the Pamphilian obelisk, in which it was said to
contain an account of the victories of the pious over the
wicked, b.c. 4000 (!) in the reign of the sixth and seventh
1 See Young in the Encyclopaxlia Britannica, 4to, London, 1S28. Hiero-
glyphics.
- Lettres sur les Hieroglyphes, 8vo, 1802 ; Essai sur les Hieroglyphes, 8vo,
1804; Analyse de l'lnscription en Hieroglyphes du Monument trouvS &
Rosette, 8vo, Paris, 1804.
3 Ancient Alphabets, by Ahmeed Bin Abuker Bin Wahshih, 4to, London,
1806. Magaz. Encycl. 1810, p. 145.
4 Nouvelle Explication des Hieroglyphes figyptiens, Svo, Paris, 1800-16.
5 Etude des Hieroglyphes, 8vo, Paris, 1812.
6 Hieroglyphoruin Origo et Nature, Svo, Cantab. 1810.