 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1770 - 500 oldal
...miftrefs. They employed pretty nearly the fame characters for all thefe different purpofes, but they varied the order and combination of the letters :...of a circle, or contrary to the courfe of the fun, &c. In this principally confifted that puerile and ridiculous art, as little' underftood probably by... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1770 - 496 oldal
...'irilrtrefi'. : They employed pretty nearly the fame cjiaradters 'for; all thefe different purpofes, .tut they varied the order and combination, of .the letters...bottom,, or in form of a circle, or contrary to', the/;courfe of the. fun, See. In this principally confuted that puerile and ridiculous art, as little... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 oldal
...mistress. The Scandinavians employed nearly the same characters for all these different purposes ; but they varied the order and combination of the letters :...either from right to left, or from top to bottom, or in the form of a circle, or contrary to the course of the sun. This Runic, the learned Celsus was of opinion,... | |
 | 1797 - 364 oldal
...certain myfterious and magical properties. There were letters or RUNES, to procure victory, to preferve Deep the incantation wrought ; Then the maid fepulchral...therefore is reprefented as ufing a fimilar expedient. Vegtam is the invader's name, Sprung from fires of warlike fame. Mortal truths will he reveal ; Thou... | |
 | 1809 - 406 oldal
...miftrefs. They employed pretty nearly the fame characters for all thefe different purpofes, but they varied the order and combination of the letters :...from right to left, or from top to bottom, or in form or a circle, or contrary Jo the courfe of the fun, &c. In this principally confifted that puerile and... | |
 | Joseph Train - 1845 - 408 oldal
...procure victory over his enemies. — Northern Antiquities, by Mallet, London, 1777, vol. i, p. 149. They wrote them either from right to left, or from top to bottom, or in a circle, contrary to the course of the sun. It VOL. H. H was the practice also, for both old and young... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 606 oldal
...mistress. They employed pretty nearly the same characters for all these different purposes, but they varied the order and combination of the letters ;...bottom, or in form of a circle, or contrary to the course of the sun, &c. In this principally consisted that puerile and ridiculous art, as little understood,... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 594 oldal
...same characters for all these different purposes, but they varied the order and combination of thef letters ; they wrote them either from right to left,...bottom, or in form of a circle, or contrary to the course of the sun, &c. In this principally consisted that puerile and ridiculous art, as little understood,... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 592 oldal
...characters for all these different Enrposes, but they -varied the order and combination of the itters ; they wrote them either from right to left, or from...bottom, or in form of a circle, or contrary to the course of the sun, &c. In this principally consisted that puerile and ridiculous art, as little understood,... | |
 | Joseph B. Gross - 1856 - 414 oldal
...mistress. They employed pretty nearly the same characters for all these different purposes, but they varied the order and combination of the letters ;...bottom, or in form of a circle, or contrary to the cour.se of the sun, etc. I have already remarked that they had often no other end, in sacrificing human... | |
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They employed pretty nearly the same characters for all these different purposes, but they varied the order and combination of the letters ; they wrote them either from right to left, or from top to bottom, or in form of a circle, or contrary to the course... 
