By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.
Chilian whale, marked like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back!
It was a cool, still evening: innumerable stars swarmed in clusters over the forests, forming bright hieroglyphics in the middle heavens, showering over the dark harbour into the sea.
It had no limit that he could see, no rules but such as hung too far away, written in the hieroglyphics of paling stars.
All over its surface was hieroglyphics engraved in characters I had never seen before, though I have often found similar ones since.
It is not until ages afterwards that we find the first clear traces of written language, and then they take the form of pictographs (like the Egyptian hieroglyphics or the earliest Chinese characters).
He had brought the deed of permission with him in his pocket, written in the fairest caligraphy, it only needed the hieroglyphics of the magnate at the bottom of it and the impression of his seal.
A farmer, named Martin Harris, who had become interested in the work, received from Joseph Smith a copy of some of the hieroglyphics with their translation.
The Mexican hieroglyphics published by Lord Kingsborough are not to be placed in the same category with the totems and the pictorial scratches of the Red-skins.
As it was impossible to acquire these by means of hieroglyphics or written characters such as were used by the Mexicans, care was taken that those speeches and poems should be learnt by heart.
A most refined taste and curious fastidiousness had arranged and harmonized all the heterogeneous items; the mental hieroglyphics had been ordered by one to whom the reading of them was no mystery.
Therefore they started, with those they could persuade to go with them, traveling by Tlapalan, translated, the country of the Red Sea, and after long journeys reached the land where the hieroglyphics leaves them.
The idols and monuments he considers of the same form in both countries, while the hieroglyphics of Palenque do not differ from those of ancient Thebes.
In a few minutes I was before the door, and tied my horse to a post, upon which was a square board bearing some kind of hieroglyphics on both sides.
I looked with amazement at the absurd hieroglyphicsupon the paper.
But to continue our supposition, Moses did not wish to take from the Egyptian hieroglyphics more than the twenty-two literal signs; he neglected the other hieroglyphs and natural symbols, for he had no need of them.
And, finally, there was the "bad eminence" of Dean Stanley, whose lifelong indulgence in hieroglyphics inflicted a permanent loss on literature.
The text which contains this legend is found cut in hieroglyphics upon a stele which is now preserved in Paris.
The text of this legend is cut in hieroglyphics on the walls of the temple of Edfu in Upper Egypt, and certain portions of it are illustrated by large bas-reliefs.
The spells, which are cut in hieroglyphics on all the parts of the stele not occupied by figures of gods, were of the most potent character, for they contained the actual words by which the gods vanquished the powers of darkness and evil.
The first step towards the decipherment of the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone was made in 1819 by Dr.
This is the more remarkable as the name of Accad and the form of the oldest Accadian hieroglyphics make it almost certain that they had migrated into Mesopotamia from the highlands of Kurdistan or of Central Asia.
The alphabets of Greece, Rome, and all modern nations are beyond all doubt derived from that of Phoenicia, and it has been generally supposed that this was formed from an abridgment of the hieroglyphics or hieratics of Egypt.
The invention of the art of writing by hieroglyphics affords strong confirmation of this view.
So stood the question until the discovery of reading hieroglyphics enabled us to test the accuracy of Manetho's lists by the light of contemporary monuments and manuscripts.
On the contrary, all the Egyptian traditions are of Egyptian gods, like Osiris and Thoth, who reigned in the valley of the Nile, and invented hieroglyphics and other arts.
The engraving and painting of the hieroglyphics were resumed with success, and carried out with a minuteness and accuracy that provokes the admiration of the beholder.
It would be just as sensible to go through the rest of the story and substitute blanks or hieroglyphics for the important words.
In their hands they held unrolled the sacred scrolls, whose hieroglyphics gave answer to all things.
Only an American art based on the hieroglyphics and war paint of the Indians would satisfy the critic with this preconceived idea.
This sheet of hieroglyphics was sent to the printing-office, and was the despair of the typographers; who, as Balzac overheard, stipulated for only an hour each in turn at the correction of his proofs.
Upon the thumb is a signet with hieroglyphics on the surface, three rings on the forefinger, two on the second, one formed like a snail shell, the same number on the next, and one on the little finger.
A gold ring exhibited at the exhibition of antiquities at the Ironmongers' Hall, in 1861, had hieroglyphics meaning 'protected by the living goddess Mu.
The style of the hieroglyphicswithin the oval make the name of that Pharaoh (Cheops, Shofo) of whom the pyramid was the tomb.
The shells, with their brass caps and sleek green bodies and hieroglyphics on the wads, were cool and comfortably heavy in her hands.
She waded down stilly cloisters between burnt stump and icy oak, through drifts marked with a million hieroglyphics of rabbit and mouse and bird.
