An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters;
proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known.

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Main Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for Tho. Bowles ... , 1726.

Subjects

Alphabet.

Note

Copy 2 bound with: Woodward, George. Poems on several occasions. Oxford, 1730; and Tolson, Francis. Proposals for the printing, Hermathenae. [London, 1739].

Physical Description

1 p. l., 127 p. 18 cm.

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