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It was finished five centuries afterwards by Nebuchadnezzar, who left a part of its history on two cylinders, which have lately been excavated on the spot, and thus deciphered by Rawlinson. 'The building, named the Planisphere, which was the wonder of Babylon, I have made and finished. With bricks, enriched with lapis lazuli, I have exalted its head.
The exultation and joy of the Pickwickians knew no bounds, when their patience and assiduity, their washing and scraping, were crowned with success. The stone was uneven and broken, and the letters were straggling and irregular, but the following fragment of an inscription was clearly to be deciphered: Mr.
I have not deciphered all the more difficult passages of the manuscript from which I took this example; but I have ascertained the meaning of all its simple characters, and your inference is certainly correct." Here he stopped abruptly, as if he thought he had said too much, and the subject dropped.
His letters, deciphered after three centuries, alone make manifest the almost desperate condition in which the apparently triumphant general was placed, and the facility with which his antagonists, had they been well guided and faithful to themselves, might have driven him into the sea. But to those adversaries he maintained an attitude of serene and smiling triumph.
Meanwhile the Baron made a tour of the yard, taking a lesson in English from the lettering on the various coaches, when, on the hind boot of one, he deciphered the word Cheapside. "Ah, Cheapside!" said he, pulling out his dictionary and turning to the letter C. "Chaste, chat, chaw, cheap, dat be it. Cheap, to be had at a low price small value. Ah!
Of this intention, which was foiled at any rate, before it could be carried into execution, there is perhaps not conclusive proof, but it has already been shown, from a deciphered letter, that the Queen had once given Buckhurst and Wilkes peremptory orders to seize the person of Hohenlo, and it is quite possible that similar orders may have been received at a later moment with regard to the young Count and the Advocate.
Having been her director for a long time, he bore ocular testimony to her truly heroic life. Sister Bourgeois preserved the letter, because a portion of it related to the affairs of the community, of which the royal counsellor took special charge in Paris. But she took the precaution to efface the portion relating to herself, yet not so perfectly as to prevent its being deciphered.
But Caesar laid his hand on them, and said, imperiously: "Drink! Give me the cup." He fixed his eyes on the wax, and with difficulty deciphered the clumsy scrawl in which Alexander had noted down the following lines, which he had heard at the "Elephant": "Since on earth our days are numbered, Ask me not what deeds of horror Stain the hands of fell Tarautas.
Mocking a nation's history! as though the career of any people even of the lowest African savages possessing no record were not a page in the general history of mankind, written by the hand of God Himself. The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye.
The output of the mines promised to be up to the most sanguine expectation. The whole scheme was organized and started there was nothing to do now but to keep it going. In the meantime he received a cable which, when deciphered, ran: "Telegraph Celtic at Gibraltar, giving Hobson instructions where to find you. Put package he carries in safe keeping.
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