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...s and Christmas-carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alphabet, whereby in aftertime he was to syllable and partly read the grand... ...portioned to its breadth? 76 Sartor Resartus We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “me- chanically” taught; Hebrew scarce even mechanical... ...is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no s... ...as trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and not ... ...to in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is ... ...that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, a... ...d Writer is God. To read it! Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof? With its Words, Sentences, and grand descriptive Pages, p...

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...s, their father’s busi- ness ally and fellow-speculator; Mr. Pericles, the Greek, the man who held millions of money as dust compared to a hu- man voi... ... every possible kind interpretation of his atrocious bad manners. He was a Greek, of Parisian gilding, whose Parisian hat flew off at a moment’s notic... ... a deep final note, and the hearers breathed freely. “Stradella!” said the Greek, folding his arms. The ladies were too deeply impressed to pursue the... ...d, and asked questions, and almost drove Mr. Pericles mad. On a sudden the Greek’s sallow visage lightened. “It is to you! it is to you!” he cried, st... ...g—”Yes, when his feelings are concerned.” “Will you repeat zat?” asked the Greek. “‘T o-to-ri:’ hein? I lose it. ‘T o-to-ru:’ bah! I lose it; ‘T o-ri:... ...elect of polite society. If you are not versed in this 47 George Meredith alphabet of mute intelligence, you are in the ranks with wait- ers and line... ... name?” Wilfrid asked for. Emilia’s lips broke to the second letter of the alphabet; but she cut short the word. “Why should you hear it? And now that...

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...ice. And gradually he was becoming familiar with his father’s repertory of Greek quotations. There was no breach between them, but each knew that holi... ...Lord! how clearly I see it! The intellectual is either a prince or he is a Greek slave in a Roman household. He’s got to hold his chin up or else he b... ...th him in a spirit of instructive association to the Balkans, rub up their Greek together, and settle the problem of Albania. He wanted, he said, a fo... ...mself a cigarette and seated himself upon a deck chair. Save for a yawning Greek sailor busy with a mop the first-class deck was empty. Benham surveye... ...ee churches for the better cultivation of hate and cruelty, the Latin, the Greek and the Mahometan.” “But no one has ever conquered these people.” “An... ...ficult language demanding new sets of visual images because of its strange alphabet. Is it any wonder that for a time he failed to observe that Prothe...

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...ck-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or less Greek. No harmony there, my dear Nathan! These heterogeneous erections are ... ...earing of my tal- ent for catching otters, for I know ‘em as you know your alphabet, he says to me like this: ‘Pere Fourchon,’ says he, “when you find... ...to public education. He helped the children to make paper boats with their alphabets much oftener than he taught them how to spell; he scolded them in... ...erests of Blangy, enabled him partially to understand a third idyll in the Greek style, which poor villagers like Tonsard, and middle-aged rich men li... ... bows were depicted smoking bowls of punch, the bowls being in the form of Greek vases. The words “Cafe de la Paix” were over the door, brilliantly pa... ...runks twine down like boa-constrictors, there the beeches stand erect as a Greek column. The snails and the slugs move peacefully about. A tench shows...

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...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...s them all, from A to Z as you say yourself, and then insert the very same alphabet in your book, and though the imposition may be plain to see, becau... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ... I would have returned and done more mischief in reveng- ing thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulc... ... Lucretia come up to her, nor any other of the famous women of times past, Greek, Barbarian, or Latin; and let each say what he will, for if in this I... ...apient foretold it, who likewise left it declared in writing in Chaldee or Greek characters (for I cannot read them), that if this predicted knight, a... ...nly the four S’s that they say true lovers ought to have, but a com- plete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote. H... ...ven already; and Z Zealous for your honour.” Camilla laughed at her maid’s alphabet, and perceived her to be more experienced in love affairs than she...

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...htered Gorgon. His name is Perseus, and you may read his story, not in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one... ...er bonnet straight must have cooled off then. The man didn’t know the very alphabet of drawing! His strong point, he intimated, was his sentiment; but...

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..., as it did herself. The unexpected vision of this accusing Captain of the Alphabet, this resplendent and haunting A. fronting him bodily, threw Ripto... ...dition! I think we have in this country what will match the Italian or the Greek.” His mind flutters to Mrs. Doria, Richard blushes before the vision ... ...sir.” Algernon Feverel and Richard came in while he was ham- mering at the alphabet to recollect the first letter of the doctor’s name. They had met i... ...ou know.” “And the marriage is valid?” “You can dispute it.” “Yes, and the Greeks and the Trojans can fight. It holds then?” “Both water and fire!” Th... ...n,” said Ri- chard under his breath to Adrian, who was serenely chant- ing Greek hexameters, and answered, in the swing of the caesura, “He might as w... ...n enjoyed himself? How likes he the society of Aspasia? I feel like a wise Greek to-night.” Adrian was jolly, and rolled comfortably as he talked. Rip...

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...lackguard!” he thought to himself. Nejdanov he had come across in a little Greek restaurant, where he was in the habit of taking his dinner, and where... ...ed everyone that the main cause of his democratic turn of mind was the bad Greek cooking, which upset his liver. “I wonder where our host has got to? ... ...ilway. 30 Virgin Soil V IN THE DRAWING ROOM of a large stone house with a Greek front—built in the twenties of the present century by Sipiagin’s fath... ...What do I hear? 0h ye gods! Is preparation necessary to teach peasants the alphabet?” At this moment Kolia ran into the drawing room shouting “Mamma! ... ...ria, and meanwhile you will be washing a baby here, teaching an- other the alphabet, or handing some sick man his medicine. That will be your beginnin... .... We cannot understand one an- 233 Turgenev other. All he says is so much Greek to me.” “Greek, eh!” Kollomietzev shrieked. “And to set peasants riot... ... “Greek, eh!” Kollomietzev shrieked. “And to set peasants rioting, is that Greek too? Is that Greek too, eh? “What have you here, your excellency? A l...

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...ent his want of zeal and exertion. Coley was sufficiently forward to begin Greek on his first arrival at Ottery, and always held a fair place for his ... ...ent, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman wr... ...d Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, a... ...impression to start with. The rest of my papers, with the exception of the Greek prose and the critical paper, I did very fairly, I think.’ A greater ... ...dds, ‘the scholarship has been to me unsatis-factory. I had worked hard at Greek prose, had trans- lated and re-translated a good deal of Xenophon, Pl... ...ver given any explanation about them. All mere matters of memory. The very alphabet shows the rich- ness of the language. There are twenty-nine letter...

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... named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort was the first place it occurred at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace of the ... ...but he knows what he knows—it is not be- fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and... ...? Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?” “Because I didn’t know any French but two or three words, and I didn’t know any La... ...and I went ashore, with others, to view the town. I got separated from the rest, and wan- dered about alone, until late in the afternoon, when I en- t... ...they are of value. The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman style of architecture, for in the then rapid decade... ... it mean anything you want to. You can begin with schlag-ader, which means artery, and you can hang on the whole dictionary, word by word, clear throu... ...ective. Observe these examples: Freundschaftsbezeigungen. Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten. Stadtverordnetenversammlungen. These things are not words, th... ...s I have al- ready mentioned. But far before this virtue stands another— that of spelling a word according to the sound of it. After one short lesson ...

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...first quadrille … Hungarian, I suppose? He was like a Tartar modelled by a Greek: supple as the Scythian’s bow, braced as the string! He has the air o... ... to be cool. And still I envy Emmy on her sofa, mastering Latin, biting at Greek. What a wise recommendation that was of Mr. Redworth’s! He works well... ...pring from her and return, a man might accept his fate to fight T rojan or Greek, sure of his mark on the enemy. But if, after all, this imputed Helen... ...ure, rewarding the lover’s ingenuity and enterprise, inspires him with old Greek no- tions of right and wrong: and love is indeed a fluid mercurial re... ...question the gain of such an expenditure of energy. The dis- persal of the alphabet over a printed page is not less perplex- ing to the illiterate. As...

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...s were set forth in case bottles with no throats. Old prints of ships with alphabetical references to their various mysteries, hung in frames upon the... ...ittle carriage was got for him, in which he could lie at his ease, with an alphabet and other elementary works of reference, and be wheeled down to th... ...t all too young for his purpose. He mentioned several instances of boys in Greek at about the same age. If I have any little uneasiness in my own mind... ...outs of bushes, under Doctor Blimber’s cultivation. Every descrip- tion of Greek and Latin vegetable was got off the driest twigs of boys, under the f... ... again he leered at Paul, as if he would have liked to tackle him with the Greek alphabet, on the spot. ‘That circumstance, indeed, Doctor Blimber,’ p... ... he leered at Paul, as if he would have liked to tackle him with the Greek alphabet, on the spot. ‘That circumstance, indeed, Doctor Blimber,’ pursued... ...repeat to me tomorrow morning before breakfast, without book, and from the Greek T estament, the first chapter of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Eph... ... by similar causes, in a minor degree talked unknown tongues, or scraps of Greek and Latin—it was all one to Paul- which, in the silence of night, had...

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...mother and I had lived alone together. I can faintly remember learning the alphabet at her knee. To this day, when I look upon the fat black letters i... ... undermine a horse s constitu- tion, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess. The rest of the half-year is a jum... ...man- ner was attributable to his being always en- gaged in looking out for Greek roots; which, in my innocence and ignorance, I supposed to be a botan... ...here! taking something out. Scraps of the Russian Prince s nails. Prince Alphabet turned topsy-turvy, I call him, for his name s got all the letters...

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...46 The Lesser Bourgeoisie ing it, in order to discover what letters of the alphabet of love they were spelling; he was even invited to commit this do-... ... own name, if we wanted to discuss it, might be said to be a loan from the Greek language.” “Very likely; at any rate we have the advantage of being k... ...on, attracted by the noise of the bell, and attired in a dressing-gown and Greek cap, came out of his study to inquire what was the matter. After a sp... ...d Thuillier, with embarrassment; “something about registry fees,—it is all Greek to me, I can’t comprehend their scrawls.” “And they chose,” said la P... ...ipodes of savage life, when it said and wrote: ‘l’Etat po- lice,’ from the Greek words state and city. So, I can assure you, we care little for the pr...

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...l you the name of every kind of tree, and some of their 93 Sinclair Lewis Greek and Latin names too! Besides, we owe the Joneses a dinner. Besides, g... ...them, this evening.” Frink spelled out the messages by running through the alphabet till the spirit interpreter knocked at the right letter. 113 Sinc...

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...ked straight and considered what they saw. Her face was much warmer than a Greek face; on the other hand it was much bolder than the face of the usual... ...ere at home; he knew about a great many things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian... ...s. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he was an authority upon coins; and—one other thing—oh yes, ... ...ings out of the sea, or to write upon the probable course of Odysseus, for Greek after all was his hobby. “I’ve got all his pamphlets,” she said. “Lit... ...military women, offi- cial women; and his ideal was a woman who could read Greek, if not Persian, was irreproachably fair in the face, and able to und... ...my life to know Greek,” she said, when he had done. “I could teach you the alphabet in half an hour,” said Ridley, “and you’d read Homer in a month. I... ... my duty at dinner!” cried Clarissa. “You’ve let yourself in for the Greek alphabet, anyhow.” “Oh, my dear! Who is Ambrose?” “I gather that he was a C... ...r, and made a con- quest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet. I will take this occasion of adding that we are both enjoying our... ...r heard such nonsense! Chitter- chatter-chitter-chatter—fish and the Greek alphabet— never listened to a word any one said—chock-full of idi- otic the...

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...er addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six years of age young Montaigne went to the Coll... ... really formidable? Or perhaps he was of the same way of thinking with the Greek poet, of whom Cicero reports this saying: “I do not desire to die; bu... ..., “Surely not; water is the best.” “Ah, yes,” he returned, “doubtless so;—(Greek phrase)—.” He had now become, icy- cold at his extremities, even to h... ...end them when he was dead. In truth, in affairs of the same nature, by the Greek laws, he who made suit to an en- emy for a body to give it burial ren... ...e Arginusian Isles, the most bloody and obstinate engagement that ever the Greeks fought at sea; because (af- ter the victory) they followed up the bl... ...it his business to compute into how many several orders the letters of the alphabet might be transposed, and found out that incredible number men- tio...

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... I will have recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic ma... ...s it that you wish to be drawn up?” Valentine named all the letters of the alphabet until she came to W . At this letter the eloquent eye of Noirtier ... ...rom M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awf... ...- ful to conceal it from every one. After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for... ...be seen without doing so? Elssler was dancing in the ‘Diable Boiteux;’ the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent... ...rd act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger. And the Greek princess, — will she be here?” “No, you will be deprived of that plea... ...tand, grandfather,” said the young girl. “He pointed to each letter of the alphabet. At the letter S the old man stopped her. She opened, and found th... ...y. Franz took it with a nervous trembling, and repeated the letters of the alphabet succes- sively, until he came to M. At that letter the old man sig... ... to converse with him?” Monte Cristo turned to Albert. “Do you know modern Greek,” asked he. “Alas, no,” said Albert; “nor even ancient Greek, my dear...

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...s, &c., of this drug, expresses himself in the following mysterious terms [Greek text]: “Perhaps he thought the subject of too delicate a nature to be... ...stinguished for my clas- sical attainments, especially for my knowledge of Greek. At 9 Thomas de Quincey thirteen I wrote Greek with ease; and at fif... ...teen my com- mand of that language was so great that I not only com- posed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could converse in Greek fluently and with... ...as owing to the practice of daily reading off the newspapers into the best Greek I could furnish extempore; for the necessity of ransacking my memory ... ...rink- ing with the sensitiveness of a gouty man from all contact with the [Greek text]. Doubtless, a powerful understanding, 15 Thomas de Quincey or ... ...s reduced to the meagre outline of differ- ences expressed in the gamut or alphabet of elementary sounds. The case was this: for the first four or fiv...

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...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ...r- respondence, was the following very simple one:—For every letter of the alphabet he substituted that which stood fourth removed from it in the orde... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...sleep, “quasi 99 Thomas de Quincey dormiret, spiritum reddidit;” or, as a Greek author expresses it, kat iso hypno to malakotato. He was one of those...