 | China - 1799 - 354 pages
...Chinese, or what, by a species of analogy, may be called its alphabet, are only 214 in number, and might be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are so many thousand characters in the language, is very much the same thing as... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1836 - 478 pages
...original characters of the Chinese, (or what, by a species of analogy, may be called its alphabet^) are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced...smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are so many thousand characters in the language is very much the same thing as... | |
 | 1837
...paper, are all but mutually unintelligible in speech. The roots, or original characters of the Chinese, are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced...that the individual Arabic numerals are combined" to express the infinite varieties of numbers. By a species of analogy they may be called the alphabet... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1837 - 1040 pages
...paper, are all but mutually unintelligible in speech. The roots, or original characters of the Chinese, are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced...little dissection and analysis. These are combined wit. each other to form other words, or express other ideas, very much in the same way that the individual... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 pages
...paper, are all but mutually unintelligible in speech. The roofs, or original characters of the Chinese, are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced to a much smaller amount V>v a little dissection and analysis. These are combined with each other to form other words, or express... | |
 | Howard Malcolm - Burma - 1839 - 344 pages
...species of analogy, may be called its alphabet, are only two hundred and fourteen in number ; and might be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are so many thousand characters in the -language, is very much the same thing... | |
 | Howard Malcolm - Burma - 1839 - 628 pages
...species of analogy, may be called its alphabet, are only two hundred and fourteen in number ; and might be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are so many thousand characters in the language, is very much the same thing as... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...original characters of the Chinese, (or what, by a species of analogy, may be called its alphabet,') are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced...smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are so many thousand characters in the language, is very much the same thing as... | |
 | William Jones - Characters and characteristics - 1841 - 186 pages
...ideas are simple, and proceeds to show, by a process of analysis, that many of those alleged to be so, are of a compound character. In order to form...way that the individual Arabic numerals are combined to express the infinite varieties of numbers. By a species of analogy they may be called the alphabet... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1848 - 480 pages
...Trigaut. 1. ic 5. t The roots, or original characters of the Chinese, are only 214 in number, and might be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection...in the same way that the individual Arabic numerals in common use are combined to express the infinite series of numbers. By a species of analogy, they... | |
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The roots, or original characters of the Chinese, (or what, by a species of analogy, may be called its alphabet^) are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are... 
