 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 514 sider
...Their third, and still more artificial method of abridging picture-writing, was, by making one thing to stand for, or represent another, where any quaint...their observations of nature, or their traditional superstitious. And this was their SYMBOLIC HIEROGLYPHIC. • Sometimes it was founded in their observations... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 sider
...and sceptre, a monarch ; and a ship and pilot, the Governor of the universe. The third method was, making one thing stand for, or represent another,...be collected from their observations of nature, or from their traditional superstitions, c 3 Sometimes this kind of hieroglyphic was founded on what they... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 406 sider
...any plain analogy or resemblance in the representative, could be collected from their observation' of nature, or t'heir traditional superstitions." "Sometimes...hieroglyphic was founded on their observations on the/ora, and real or imaginary natures and qualities of beings. Thus, a clientflying for relief to... | |
 | William Warburton - 1837 - 744 sider
...cap. 18. U Id. lib. ii. cap. 88. ** Clem. Alex. Strom, lib. v. TT 1'lutarch It. ct Osir. tt Id. ib. where any quaint resemblance or analogy, in the representative,...observations of nature, or their traditional superstitions. And this was their SYMBOLIC HIEROGLYPHIC. Sometimes it was founded in their observations on the form,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1846 - 542 sider
...third, and still more artificial method of abridging picture writing, was, by making one thing to »tand for, or represent another, where any quaint resemblance...observations of nature, or their traditional superstitions. And this was their SYMBOLIC HIEROGLYPHIC. Sometimes it was founded in their observations on the form,... | |
 | Tzvetan Todorov - 1984 - 310 sider
...Egyptians' "third, and still more artificial method of abridging picture-writing, was by making one thing to stand for, or represent another, where any quaint...observations of nature, or their traditional superstitions" (pp. 25-26). Here we confront the metaphor. Within this second stage itself, two phases are distinguishable:... | |
 | Ian Balfour - 2002 - 372 sider
...conducted according to metonymic and metaphoric transformations, the latter substitutions occurring where "any quaint Resemblance or Analogy, in the Representative,...Observations of Nature, or their traditional Superstitions" (72). One might think that substitutions founded on resemblance would be naturally or universally intelligible,... | |
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Sometimes this kind of hieroglyphic was founded on their observations on the form, and real or imaginary natures and qualities, of beings. Thus the universe was designed by a serpent in a circle, whose variegated spots signified the stars; and the sun-rise... 