Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language

Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 - English language - 431 pages

On Philanthropy religious Liberality and general Civilisation	xxii

TABLE OF CONTENTS	xxiii

List of Coptic and Sahidic Words with their Analogies in other	xliii

CHAPTER I	1

Adjectives and Participles never vary their termination	2

LennepHemsterhuysPrimitive Greek roots	4

The addition made to them by the Greeks was that of	10

CHAP XIV	13

List of Latin verbs in Esco	183

CHAP XVI	195

Sketch of the progress of our Knowledge respecting	198

366	205

CHAP XVII	209

Which was the Rustic Latin and which finally subsided into	215

CHAP XX	232

The Armenian Language	239

The Atlantic Island	249

Apparent coincidence between India and Peru	255

Identity of hieroglyphic characters in China and Egypt	262

The Sistine Chapel The Camere of the VaticanThe Cartoons	267

ON THE LANGUAGE OF ANCIENT EGYPT	276

ON ALPHABETICAL CHARACTERS	281

Mode of employing	304

We can form as little idea of the language as of the happiness	309

The Nose	315

Pronouns and Articles of Greece and Rome traced to an Oriental	332

The Verb may be analysed into a Noun and its Terminations	334

CHAP XXX	339

ON PARTICLES	347

The Hebrew Yood	373

We are constrained to come to the conclusion that the Greek	379

We ought to revert to the primitive mode of writing Greek	393

Matthiæ supposes that Homer and the early Greek poets	400

Singular fact that no Egyptian Monuments prior to the accession	401

Passage from Dionysius of Halicarnassus the foundation	406

Hebrew Bayth B or V Hay and Heth	410

The acquirement of some of the Oriental languages	430

Title	Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language
Author	Henry Welsford
Publisher	Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	20 Sep 2007
Length	431 pages

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Observation and experiment the only secure basis of Physics xxxix	17

The KouOuen or oldest Chinese writing	18

African Words	19

ON DIVERSITIES OF LANGUAGE WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED	26

Great fluctuations in Alphabets before they became finally	32

CHAP V	43

Abstract of Chinese Grammar	49

CHAP VIII	69

CHAP X	82

List of Mandingo Words	83

CHAP XI	91

CHAP XII	101

The Greek and Latin derivations from the Sanskrit Dhatos	114

CHAP XV	137

Zeta	144

XVI	151

On the verb Tupto	155

The First Aorist	162

Object of Philosophical GrammarTenses	167

The Sanskrit verb really consists of an unvarying root joined	174

976	178