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I went at once to the library, and Unger selected the books which seemed best adapted to give me further instruction. I returned with Champollion's Grammaire Hieroglyphique, Lepsius's Lettre a Rosellini, and unfortunately with some misleading writings by Seyffarth.
I went at once to the library, and Unger selected the books which seemed best adapted to give me further instruction. I returned with Champollion's Grammaire Hieroglyphique, Lepsius's Lettre a Rosellini, and unfortunately with some misleading writings by Seyffarth.
Wendell Phillips, numerous works on Oriental art, from the imperial governments of Japan and China, and many thousand folio volumes of Parliamentary papers and British patents, from the British government. Of its Orientalia and its department of Egyptology the library is especially proud. The latter so good an authority as Professor Seyffarth pronounces second only to that of the British Museum.
Eliot puts his hands into the pockets of his parishioners, who are rich, up to the elbows. "Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. "Doctor Seyffarth is a man of more than sixty years, gray-haired, healthy-looking, and pleasant in manners.
I went at once to the library, and Unger selected the books which seemed best adapted to give me further instruction. I returned with Champollion's Grammaire Hieroglyphique, Lepsius's Lettre a Rosellini, and unfortunately with some misleading writings by Seyffarth.
Seyffarth Mississippi river Sand-bars Cherry blossoms Eclipse of sun Natchez New Orleans Slave market Negro church The "peculiar institution" Bible Judge Smith Travelling without escort Savannah Rice plantations Negro children Miss Murray Charleston Drive Condition of slaves Old buildings Miss Rutledge Mr. Capers Class meeting Hospitality Mrs.
Seyffarth has deciphered. "Mr. Seyffarth must be a remarkable man; he has translated a great many inscriptions, and is said to surpass Champollion. He has published a work on Egyptian astronomy, but no copy is in this country. "Dr. Pope, who called on me, and with whom I was much pleased, told me of all these things.
Erring minds declaring the system of the great Frenchman to be wrong, and submitting others of their own, as the Russian Klaproth and the German Seyffarth, disturbed Champollion's peace; still more bitterly, however, was he pursued by the envy and hatred of his political opponents. Even when the laurel already decorated his brow, they saw to it that the thorns were not wanting in the wreath.
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