 | Francis Lieber - 1831 - 620 pages
...30 14 60 24 100 80 150 80 20 _50 804 The figures were arranged in columns, vertical or horizontal, and grouped together, as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant, which of course would often have happened, had they written their signs successively, as we do our... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1831 - 628 pages
...Fantastic forms, •">'. Total ... 864 The figures were arranged in columns, vertical or horizontal, and grouped together, as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant, which of course would often have happened, had they written their signs successively, as we do our... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pages
...20 Fantastic forms, 50 Total . . . 864 The figures were arranged in columns, vortical or horizontal, and grouped together, as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant, which of course would often have happened, had they written their signs successively, as we do our... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pages
...20 18. Fantastic Figures 50 The figures were arranged in columns, vertical or horizontal, and order, grouped together as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant. The order in which the characters are to be read, is shown by the direction in which the figures are... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1867 - 508 pages
...single example of a graphic system identically the same during a period of over two thousand years. The hieroglyphic figures were arranged in vertical...columns, or horizontal lines, and grouped together as circunihtances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant. They were written from right... | |
 | Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 984 pages
...those which rendered with more or less f1delity the color of the object they were intended to depict. The hieroglyphic figures were arranged in vertical...the direction in which the figures are placed, as their-heads are invariably turned towards the reader. A single line of hieroglyphics—the dedication... | |
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The hieroglyphic figures were arranged in vertical columns or horizontal lines, and grouped together as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant. They were written from right to left, or from left to' right. The order in which... 