 Egypt," written by Young in 1818, and published in the " Encyclopaedia Britannica " for 1819, a writer in the " Edinburgh Review " for 1826 delivers the following weighty opinion : " We do not hesitate to pronounce this article the greatest effort of...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 568by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1887Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 790 pages
...had succeeded in deciphering in the hieroglyphic and enchorial texts and in the Egyptian manuscripts. We do not hesitate to pronounce this article the greatest...and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast. In endeavouring to appreciate the extent of Dr Young's discoveries, it must not be forgotten, that... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 pages
...succeeded i<* deciphering in the hieroglyphic and enchorial texts and in the Egyptian manuscripts. We do not hesitate to pronounce this article the greatest...scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast."i Dr Young's claim to the discovery of the nature and meaning of the phonetic hieroglyphics... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1839 - 544 pages
...here to state that his labours in the field of Egyptian literature have been justly pronounced to be " the greatest effort of scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast." In 1817, Dr. Young again visited Paris upon professional business and resumed his connexion with the... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...the labours of Person and Hayne, the two best scholars of the age, enabled Dr Young to accomplish ' the greatest effort of scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast,' and lead the way to the true knowledge of hieroglyphics. It was then, for the first time, discovered,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pages
...had succeeded in deciphering in the hieroglyphic and enchorial texts and in the Egyptian manuscripts. We do not hesitate to pronounce this article the greatest...scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast."1 Dr Young's claim to the discovery of the nature and meaning of the phonetic hieroglyphics... | |
 | William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - 460 pages
...results of both his critical and historical labours in this department, and has been pronounced to be " the greatest effort of scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast." His interest arid labours in this difficult inquiry continued to the last ; and at the time of Dr.... | |
 | Royal College of Physicians of London, William Munk - 1878 - 436 pages
...results of both his critical and historical labours in this department, and has been pronounced to he " the greatest effort of scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast." His interest and labours in this difficult inquiry continued to the last ; and at the time of Dr. Young's... | |
 | 1890 - 1016 pages
...general view of the results both of his critical and historical labors: it has been pronounced "to be the greatest effort of scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast." This is not the place to discuss the rival claims of Young and Champollion to the priority of discovery... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1897 - 532 pages
...the analysis of the Enchorial inscription. And," adds Young, " as far as I have ever heard or read, not one of these particulars had ever been established...founded. Young was limited to what Peacock here calls "a * Young's editor adds here: "The discovery was long afterwards made by Champollion that the cartouches... | |
 | William Stirling - 1902 - 210 pages
...1815 he directed his attention to Hieroglyphics. " His labours in the field of Egyptian literature are the greatest effort of scholarship and ingenuity of which modern literature can boast." I am incapable of doing justice to the work of Young, in its bearing on physiology or medicine, but... | |
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