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written characters , which he had learned in the schools of the Egyptians under the patronage of the daushter of Pharaoh . *'
1 his assertion of the use of written characters by the Egyptians has been frequently made , but I confess for my own part , that J
have never seen any reason to acquiesce in it . On the contrary there appears to me to be very strong reasons for believing that at the time of the Israelites
sojourning in the desert the Egyptians could not possess the knowledge attributed to them . But as this is a question of fact , and the writer of the paper from which the extract is taken , asserts positively , that Moses had learned the use of written characters in the schools of the Egyptians ^ I shall be much obliged to him for the authorities on which this
position is built That in the schools of the Egyptians hieroglyphicks
were used I do not doubt , but the passage from hieroglyphical characters to the use of letters is
byno means an easy one , and requires an analysis of sounds far beyond the reach of the Egyptian philosophy . Your constant reader W , . F .
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Prophecy of Buonaparte . Sir , I apprehend that few of your readers can attend less than my . self , to the many attempts that
aiv iDade to explain the prophecies , and to finu thrir fulfilment in particular circumstances and characters . Their explanation is found most to my satisfaction in
the events by which they are accomplished . But I am led to no-
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tice a pamphlet published by Jordan and Maxwell , in the year 1807 , on account of the singular opinions of the writer and their very striking application to
recent political events . It is entitled , * Daniel ' s Evening Vision compared with History , in which is disclosed a Prophecy concerning Buonaparte , By the author of La Revolution-Vision . Printed
at Pans . In the Preface , dated August , 1806 , the writer says , 6 t The opinion which the author has formed from the prophetic writings concerning the high
destiny of Buonaparte , if true , is wonderfully sublime , and must be iniere&ting in the highest
degree . 1 * appears to him , what at present seems almost impossible , that he will be subdued by the coalition powers , and in the desperate and humble situation in which
he will be placed , he will give the most profound consideration to the book of Prophecies , in which lie will read his past extraordinary history , and learn , that he is commissioned by heaven to pave the way for the reign of the saints , who will revolutionize the world
in righteousness and set up the empire of reason , truth , and virtue * " And in page 17 , " It the mighty conqueror ' s mountain stands strong , and apparently immoveable , it may suddenly vanish . Nothing seems to be impossible in the revolutionary world . Although the coalition is broken , and almost dissolved , it is not annihilated , and it may coalesce again and conquer . " Agaih , " when bis great work ib done in the civilized
world , the sovereignty and the greatness of the kingdom will be given to the people of tbe saint * of the Most High . Yet he will
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$ 38 Prophecy of Buonaparte .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/14/
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