Title: | 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. |
Author: | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 |
Note: | Printed for Tho. Bowles ... , 1726 |
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Subject: | Alphabet |
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