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Excerpt from An Essay on the Hieroglyphics of the Ancient Egyptians Upon examining for that purpose the principles upon which the Phonetic System of Champollion appeared to be founded, he saw much reason for dissatisfaction, which feeling was greatly in creased by a fruitless endeavour to apply them to the reading of the various names and inscriptions upon existing monuments. Examples of confident assertions, in many instances without even a vestige of proof; of characters in one work said to have one signification, while a totally different one was given to them in another, without any reason being assigned for so doing; of words said to exist, or to have a peculiar meaning in the Coptic language, which, upon a reference to the existing lexicons of that tongue, either could not be found, or appeared to have a very different signification; but above all, the want of uniformity in a variety of instances in the method of reading the same name or word, by the different partizans of this system, joined to the reasons given in the early part of the following work, induced the Author to apply the principles this publication is intended to explain to the interpretation of these mystical symbols. 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.