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John Wilkins
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John Wilkins : Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language
?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkins?s Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language. It is a scarce and very ingenious book; some of the phraseology is so much out of the present fashion, that it would make you smile; such as the synonym for a little man, a Dandiprat. Likewise, two prints, one of them a long sheet of men with their throats cut, so as to show the wind pipe whilst working out the different letters of the alphabet. The other print of all the birds and beasts packed ready to go to the ark?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the "
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, wherein he doth give a very good account thereof, showing how few the number of the several species of beasts and fowls were that were to be in the arke, and that there was room enough for them and their food and dung; which doth please me mightily - and is much beyond whatever I heard of that subject.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
John Wilkins : An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language
'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a great while ago and doth please me infinitely, and endeed is a most worthy labour - and I think mighty easy, though my eyes makes me unable to attempt anything in it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
John Gardner Wilkinson : Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians: both works are full of Wood cuts in illustration of the subjects they describe, and in Wilkinson's work I found an ancient Egyptian Car, & a wooden pillow hollowed out for the head, which I immediately remembered having seen at Professor Roselini's Egyptian Museum at Florence'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
John Wilkins : A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer
'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and expression; and although by such industrious wayes I had a gift of prayer, I knew that except the spirit of God helped my infirmityes . . . I could not pray in such a manner as to pleas God. I found it much better to use scripture phrase, on all occasions, th[a]n to trust to parts, and pray at random'.
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer Print: Book
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson : Egypt
'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'
