The Complte History of Ireland,: From the Earliest Times: Being Compiled from a Connected Continuation by Approved Standard Writers. Embellished with Magnificent Steel Engravings, from Designs Taken Expressly by W. H. Bartlett, EsqR. Martin & Company, 1845 - Ireland |
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... letters then promulga- ted , which consisted by universal consent of but sixteen , and in our alphabet at this day we have but seventeen . These orig- inal letters , by the consent of Pliny , Euse- bius , Plutarch , etc. , were the ...
... letters then promulga- ted , which consisted by universal consent of but sixteen , and in our alphabet at this day we have but seventeen . These orig- inal letters , by the consent of Pliny , Euse- bius , Plutarch , etc. , were the ...
Page 31
... letters into Greece , many mistakes have happened . The very learned Jones is greatly at a loss to account for Cadmus's alphabet hav- ing but sixteen letters ; whereas , ( says he , ) in the days of Moses , who preceded him , ( Cadmus ...
... letters into Greece , many mistakes have happened . The very learned Jones is greatly at a loss to account for Cadmus's alphabet hav- ing but sixteen letters ; whereas , ( says he , ) in the days of Moses , who preceded him , ( Cadmus ...
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... letters , though he admits the Irish to be as early in the possession of letters as any nation what- ever , yet contends that St. Patrick abso- lutely destroyed their original letter , and in its place substituted the present one ...
... letters , though he admits the Irish to be as early in the possession of letters as any nation what- ever , yet contends that St. Patrick abso- lutely destroyed their original letter , and in its place substituted the present one ...
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