The Freemasons' Quarterly Review, Vol. 14

Download or read book The Freemasons' Quarterly Review, Vol. 14 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freemasons' Quarterly Review, Vol. 14: March 31, 1847 With these remarks I return to the subject of the hieroglyphics. The language of the ancient Egyptians was ancient Coptic, and it is somewhat remarkable that this language ceased to be orally practised among the modern Copts about a century since. Arabic gradually superseded it, and the sat speaker of Coptic died about seventy years ago. The ancient language is still, however, read in the churches of the Coptic community, with Arabic translations. Had it been entirely lost, the art of deciphering the hieroglyphics, and the important results which have been detailed as owing from that circumstance, would have been lost to the world for ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."