. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . ing Books as ftrong as it is now. Of theManner, Excellencies, and Improvement, ofthis excellent Art, and what it may yetbe farther capable of with mathematicalRules for exact Writing-, having no ro
. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . ing Books as ftrong as it is now. Of theManner, Excellencies, and Improvement, ofthis excellent Art, and what it may yetbe farther capable of with mathematicalRules for exact Writing-, having no roomto enter upon it here, I may difcouifeof at laree hereafter in a Work by it-felf. //cCt<M SEPTEMBER, 1739. \ -PROPOSALS ror Printing, hermat: HENJE: J O R, ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY MORAL EMBLEMS, AND Ethmck TALES. With NOTES, Explaining the more difficult PafTages in Divinity^PhUofophy,Hi/lory9 Muthology, &c. Neceffary for the Imprinting Religion, Virtue, and aKnowledge of Antiquity, in the Minds of YOUTH,and Others who have neither Time nor Opportunity fordeeper and more particular Enquiries. By F R a- Tolso N,Vicar of Eafton-Maudit, in the County of Northampton,and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Suffe Refficere Exemplar , Morumqi \uheho. Hor. dz Art? Fo« The CONDITIONS. I. r» 1 HAT this Work fhall be printed *in twoVolumes, Octavo Royal, and ^contain 120 Emblems, making, with the Notes, above 400 Pages,each Emblem to be curioufly engraved on a ~?opper-Plate, befides the Erontifpiece, and printed in the lameManner as the Specimen hereto annexd. II. That the Price of each Volume, neatly bound inCalf, to Subfcribers will be Six Shillings and Six-
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