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...each thing by nature has, and is able to express the true forms of things in letters and syllables. HERMOGENES: I cannot answer you, Socrates; but I f... ...OCRATES: A very simple matter. I may illustrate my mean ing by the names of letters, which you know are not the same as the letters themselves with t... ...of the four epsilon, upsilon, omicron, omega; the names of the rest, whether vowels or consonants, are made up of other letters which we add to them; ... ...a; the names of the rest, whether vowels or consonants, are made up of other letters which we add to them; but so long as we introduce the meaning, an... ... the value which the legislator intended—so well did he know how to give the letters names. HERMOGENES: I believe you are right. SOCRATES: And may not... ...sition or subtraction of a letter or two, or indeed by the change of all the letters, for this need not interfere with the meaning. As was just now sa... ...CRATES: Must we not begin in the same way with letters; first separating the vowels, and then the conso nants and mutes (letters which are neither vo... ...ceived dis tinctions of the learned; also the semivowels, which are neither vowels, nor yet mutes; and distinguishing into classes the vowels themsel...

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...in Charles Dickens 13 his neck, and a scroll below him, in old English letters, ‘Lord! keep my memory green!’ You know all about him, Mr. Redlaw?”... ...many great discoveries, for its simplicity, consisted in varying the first vowel in the word “paper,” and substituting, in its stead, at dif ferent p... ...bstituting, in its stead, at dif ferent periods of the day, all the other vowels in gram matical succession. Thus, before daylight in the winter ti... ... came up, last night, with a little servant maid. As you always dated your letters from the ____, she came there; and before I saw Mr. Redlaw this mor...

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...in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in papers written by myself th... ...ugh standing lowest in your cata- logue, to rejoice in the recollection of letters expressing the most fervid interest in particular passages or scene... ...ident were graver than we antici- pated. A general board of our guardians, vowels and conso- nants, was summoned to investigate the matter. The origin... ...not be brought to any terms of accommodation. “That we will try,” said the vowel amongst our guardians, Mr. E. He, being a magistrate, had naturally s... ...t her in these French luminar- ies by reading extracts from their frequent letters; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to ... ...ever, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (previously budding... ...ctor, as their reciever, and the proneur of their authors. The tone of the letters— hollow, insincere, and full of courtly civilities to Dr. P ., as a... ...t is this—(and the grandeur of sim- plicity at any rate it has)—repeat the vowel or diphthong of every syllable, prefixing to the vowel so repeated th...

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..................................................37 TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ................................................................. ...h special severity in all that touches dialect; so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tor- tured, and the reader wearied, to commemor... ... for the most part to the proper spelling, I append a table of some common vowel sounds which no one need consult; and just to prove that I belong to ... ...e addressed its eveing hours. BOOK II. – In Scots TABLE OF COMMON SCOTTISH VOWEL SOUNDS ae } ae } = open A as in rare. a’ } au } = AW as in law aw } e...

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...what I have written of Bishop Patteson, far more what I have copied of his letters, is necessarily only partial, although his nearest relations and cl... ... use of all that could build up a complete idea of the man as he was. Many letters relate to home and family matters, such as it would be useless and ... ...interest and sympathy in all that concerned his kindred and friends. Other letters only repeat the narrative or the reflections given elsewhere; and o... ... fullest or the clearest expression. In general, the story is best told in letters to the home party; while thoughts are generally best expressed in t... ... of diction. There is as voluminous a correspondence with the Brother, and letters to many Cousins; but as these either repeat the same adventures or ... ...ows the rich- ness of the language. There are twenty-nine letters, besides vowel points; and each letter is written in four different ways, so that it... ...peculiar terminations, the law by which the 317 Yo n g e transposition of vowels and consonants is governed in gen- eral. All these things soon come ...

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...ving of those blindest of the blind who will not see. The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration a... ...nant, he will not improbably rejoice to write it down even when it is mute or bears a different value. Here, then, we have a fresh pattern – a pattern... ...etition of the F and V , the whole matter turns, almost too obtrusively, on S and R; first S coming to the front, and then R. In the con- cluding phra... ... ear is deeper-seated and more original in man than any logical con- sideration. Few writers, indeed, are probably conscious of the length to which th... ...was only by looking back on what he had already written that the mystery was solved: the second word contained an open A, and for nearly half a page h... ...r of taste or pure reason, must be held upon the stretch to make it; and why, when it is made, it should afford us so complete a pleasure. From the ar... ...arce a faculty in man but has been exercised. We need not wonder, then, if perfect sentences are rare, and perfect pages rarer. CHAPTER II THE MORALIT...

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... the few cases of impure rhymes being mainly those in which short and long vowels are rhymed together, e.g. “mich” : “rich” or “man” : “han.” Caesural... ...th short “i” has been cho- sen, as the lack of accent tends to shorten the vowel in such names. (14) “Gere” is likewise a late introduction. He is per... ...ented them full sore. With him many a knight was doomed to a savage death. Letters and messages had now been given them. They rode forth rich in goods...

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... Odin himself. Look there, and wonder, impious young man, and admire these letters, the invention of the Scandinavian god!” Well, well! not knowing wh... ...of characters; then raising his spectacles he pronounced: “These are Runic letters; they are exactly like those of the manuscript of Snorre Turlleson.... ...anuscript of Snorre Turlleson. But, what on earth is their meaning?” Runic letters appearing to my mind to be an invention of the learned to mystify t... ...self. “This is what is called a cryptogram, or cipher,” he said, “in which letters are purposely thrown in confusion, which if properly arranged would... ...ntinued my uncle, “that some possessor of this book wrote these mysterious letters. But who was that possessor? Is his name nowhere to be found in the... ...dred and thirty-two letters, viz., seventy-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northe... ...sisting of consonants only, as nrrlls; others, on the other hand, in which vowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but one... ...out of my hands. “This begins to look just like an ancient docu- ment: the vowels and the consonants are grouped together in equal disorder; there are...

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...he fortifica- tions of consonants by which the Slave language protects its vowels,—probably not to lose them, considering how few there are. The Marqu... ...nexplicable. Thaddeus received in the course of the next week thirty-seven letters from women of their kind. Happily for him, his astonishing reserve ... ...ng, “She shall owe his life to me,” and he wrote the thought as it were in letters of fire on the walls of Adam’s room. On the fifteenth day Clementin... ...istory The Magic Skin 51 Balzac A Second Home A Prince of Bohemia Letters of T wo Brides The Muse of the Department The Middle Classes ...

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...onant? Love’ s Labours Lost Act V, Scene i 51 MOTH: The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I. HOLOFERNES: I will repea... ... my picture in his letter! PRINCESS: Any thing like? ROSALINE: Much in the letters; nothing in the praise. PRINCESS: Beauteous as ink; a good concl... ...n, Thus purifies itself and turns to grace. PRINCESS: We have received your letters full of love; Your favors, the ambassadors of love; And, in our m... ...herefore met your loves In their own fashion, like a merriment. DUMAIN: Our letters, madam, show’d much more than jest. LONGAVILLE: So did our looks...

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...me accident the re porters failed to perceive this. Day before yesterday, letters and telegrams began to arrive from friends and strangers which indi... ... by half past seven, and off to the station for her mail. She examined the letters and I distributed them: some to her, some to Mr. Paine, the others ... ...e housekeeper, and let Katy assist. Also, she would continue to answer the letters of personal friends for me. Such was the compromise. Both of us cal... ...ndence out of the waste basket and answered the let ters. She thought all letters deserved the courtesy of an answer. Her mother brought her up in th... ...e represents a burning martyr. He is in back of the smoke. The first three letters of Mary’s name and the first three of the word martyr are the same.... ...d) character. I mean simply the alphabet; sim ply the consonants and the vowels—I don’t mean any re ductions or abbreviations of them, such as the... ... penman, the saving in labor is insignifi cant. T o write that word (with vowels) with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen... ...graphic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen strokes. Without the vowels, only thirteen strokes [ Image not avail able—ed.]. The vowels are...

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..., sir,” returned the gentle man; “pray let me listen—O.” He enunciated this vowel after a pause, and noted it down. At first I was alarmed, for an Ex... ... of bells. One of these bells was labelled, on a black ground in faded white letters, Master B. This, they told me, was the bell that rang the most....

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...g, and sent farewell 9 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One letters to all his friends, including the Abbé Southcot. This gentleman com... ...age is only one of those painful inci- dents which disgrace the history of letters, and prove how much spleen, ingratitude, and baseness often co-exis... ... strange, mysterious circum- stances connected with the publication of his letters. It seems that, in 1729, Pope had recalled from his correspondents ... ...ers. It seems that, in 1729, Pope had recalled from his correspondents the letters he had written them, of many of which he had kept no copies. He was... ... his mistress, Mrs Thomas, who was in indigent circumstances, had sold the letters which had passed between Pope and her keeper, to Curll the booksell... ...ic there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words o...

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...eir intercourse had long been limited to the exchange of a few perfunctory letters, written with indifference by the daugh- ter, and with difficulty b... ...art, when for a month past he had seen it, night after night, stand out in letters of flame against the darkness of his sleepless lids? “It has been j... ...ved he fidgeted 40 Early Short Fiction about the library, glancing at his letters—the usual meaningless notes and bills—and picking up the evening pa... ...ving to society that he had deserved death from it. He began to write long letters to the papers; but after the first had been published and commented... ...r, drawing a deep breath as she ended. “That unapproachable combination of vowel sounds prepares one better than anything I know for the con- templati... ...nuously avowed, made use of the doctor’s visitors as a means of exchanging letters. “And you told the visitors to ring twice?” Wyant interposed. The y...

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...imple language, writing to the newspapers, for it took the outward form of letters: in reality, it was the deliberate saddling of our an- cient nightm... ...o a Christian gentleman. You will receive from the publisher the “Life and Letters of Lord Collingwood,” whom I have it in my mind that a young midshi... ...while journals were testifying to it down the length of their columns, and letters from home palpi- tated with it, and shipmates yawned wearily for th... ...ed on to the Piazzetta thoughtfully. Her father was at Florian’s, perusing letters from France. ‘We are to have the marquis here in a week, my child,’... ...to deceive the count and the marquis under the guise of simple friendship. Letters passed between them in books given into one another’s 78 Beauchamp... ...visham. He arrived in the best of moods for the emis- sion of high-pitched vowel-sounds; otherwise in the worst of tempers. His uncle had notified an ...

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...aughters.’ ‘Can you tell me no details,’ said Mark anxiously. ‘Have you no letters? It was about the time when Blanche was born, when we were living a... ...axley.’ ‘I am sorry to say that our roving life prevented my keep- ing old letters. I have often regretted it. Let me see, there was one who boxed May... ...e now saw he had done very wrong in letting his mother-in-law take all the letters about “that unhappy business” off his hands without looking at them... ... drop without in- 16 Nuttie’s Father quiry, and never even looking at the letters, which there cer- tainly were. I could not get him to begin upon it... ..., or anything that can be a clue. Has any one looked over my grandmother’s letters?’ ‘I think not. My brother spoke of keeping them till I came to Lon... ...a long green tin case, or vasculum as she chose to call it, with her three vowels, U A E, and the stars of the Little Bear con- spicuously painted on ...

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...s, Lady Bertram dispatched money and baby-linen, and Mrs. Norris wrote the letters. Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelvemonth a more i... ...go to the post?” “Yes, depend upon me it shall: it shall go with the other letters; and, as your uncle will frank it, it will cost William nothing.” “... ...ssible fatigue or exertion in every par- ticular but that of directing her letters. The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival at Antig... ...ir family,” said Fanny, colouring for William’s sake, “they can write long letters.” “Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excellence... ... a very pleasing affection.” “Yes, except as to his writing her such short letters. She made me almost laugh; but I cannot rate so very highly the lov... ...r take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing. What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants! Your cousin Edmund m...

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...entally I have re-read most of Machiavelli, not excepting those scandalous letters of his to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released mys... ...r, my mother’s sister’s husband, with a remarkable accent and re- markable vowel sounds, who had plunged into the Bromstead home once or twice for the... ... carried on a correspondence with a number of cousins and friends, writing letters in a slanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriage... ...ed face and shining eyes if it was not “GLORIOUS.” The very sight of Greek letters brings back to me the dingy, faded, ink-splashed quality of our cla... ... conveyed she liked me, and when presently Willersley drifted off to write letters our talk sank at once to easy con- fidential undertones. I felt ent... ...een off by a company of friends, noisily arch and eager about the “steamer letters” they would get at Liverpool; they were the very soul-sisters of my...

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...g pumice into foam, and yet you may search the whole human record through, letters, books, inscriptions, pictures, for any glimmer of a realisation th... ... ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters with his tongue out, and seemed to think a Greek sentence a charm w... ... already in her debt—to keep an old box for me in which I had locked a few letters, keepsakes, and the like. She lived in great fear of the Public Hea... ...ogether all the rulers of the world and unify them. He wrote innu- merable letters, he sent messages, he went desperate jour- 86 The World Set Free n... ...plu- rals were abolished; its spelling was systematised and adapted to the vowel sounds in use upon the continent of Europe, and a process of incorpor...

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...w. About to appear for the first time in my own name in this department of letters, it occurred to me that something in the shape of a periodical publ... ...nd others, I fear, went to the devil; a few found resources in science and letters; one or two turned philosophers in a small way, peeped into micro- ... ... argument as gained if secured by a quotation. Then the flourished capital letters, which ornamented the com- mencement of each paragraph, and the nam... ...steadiest of drivers, against hazard of limb, and wafts us, as well as our letters, from Edinburgh to Cape Wrath in the penning of a paragraph. When m... ...as called Littlecroft; we have dubbed it Little Croftangry, and the men of letters belonging to the Post Office have sanctioned the change, and delive... ...tch patois, as the accent of St. James’s is from that of Billingsgate. The vowels were not pronounced much broader than in the Italian language, and t...