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The temptation to dilate upon the beauty and intrinsic interest of the MSS. and upon the characteristic scripts of different ages and countries is hard to resist. And, indeed, without some slight elucidation of such matters my readers may be very much at fault.
I hope to procure scripts from that too, very speedily, if it be put to the test; for the saucy fair-one is resolved to go to church this morning; no so much from a spirit of devotion, I have reason to think, as to try whether she can go out without check, controul, or my attention. I have been denied breakfasting with her.
The Phnician mind, if not original, was at all events practical. The great stumbling-block in the way of the ancient scripts was their complexity a fault which the Minoan users of the Linear Script, Class B, had evidently already begun to recognize and endeavour to amend.
Since then the material has been rapidly accumulating, and at present the number of objects tablets, labels, and other articles-inscribed with the various Cretan scripts can be counted by thousands. The earliest form of Minoan writing that can be traced consists of rude pictographic symbols engraved upon bead-seals and gems.
Nice mornin', ain't it?" "Bah!" says he, registerin' deep disgust, as they say in the movie scripts. "You'll do well if you last eight or ten days." "How cheerin'!" says I, and as he swings off with a final glare I tips him the humorous wink. Why not? No young-man-afraid-of-his-job part for me! Briscoe might get it away from me, or he might not; but I wa'n't goin' to get panicky over it.
As to letters, he had them in all scripts, from all countries, written in every dialect, affectionate letters, grateful, overflowing with love, filled with adoration.
The scripts of these plays consisted, like our ancient "Platts" and the Italian Scenarios, of principally stage directions.
And in these two years we have learned more than we had learned in the ten years of the Home of the Students. We have learned things which are not in the scripts. We have solved secrets of which the Scholars have no knowledge. We have come to see how great is the unexplored, and many lifetimes will not bring us to the end of our quest. But we wish no end to our quest.
As yet knowledge with regard to these systems has not advanced beyond the description of the materials and their comparison with those furnished by other scripts, a task which has so far been accomplished by Dr.
The Ionian has been the source of the Eastern scripts, Romaic, Coptic, Slavic, and others. The Italic became the parent of the modern alphabets of Western Europe. THE MEDIAEVAL SCRIPTS. A variety of national scripts arose in the establishment of the Teutonic kingdoms upon the ruins of the Roman Empire.
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