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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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...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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...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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.... The country? Our advice is, that you write to papa one of your cleverest letters. We know, darling, what you can do with the pen as well as the swor... ...you fancy,’ was his answer. He seemed to speak every word at me in capital letters. Then, as if a little ashamed, he sat down, and reached out his han... ...ongue’s tip, with her chin lifted up; 181 George Meredith and sending the vowels on a prolonged hushed breath, that seemed to print them on the heari... ...-house with Mr. Pericles, before a heap of papers and newly-opened foreign letters; to one of which, bearing a Russian stamp, he referred fretfully at... ...to-morrow. “Your lover.” This, being inserted in an envelope, with zig-zag letters of address to form Emilia’s name, he contrived to pass to Braintop’... ... early as possible, and then he and Georgiana went down to Lady Charlotte. Letters from Adela kept the Brookfield public informed of the doings on boa... ...took her once to task about a melodious accent in which she vulgarized the vowels. All the flattery of the Branciani dress could not keep Emilia from ...

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...daughters of parchment rallied him concerning Miss Clare Forey. His hourly letters to Raynham, and silence as to everything and everybody there, his n... ...eart trying to get the round-shouldered rustic to take in the rudiments of letters: for the boy had unbounded hopes for Tom, as a hero in grain. Richa... ...ubled by this rudiment of self-knowledge as Tom by 75 George Meredith his letters. Sir Austin had him instructed in the wonders of anatomy, to restor... ...eks the Saurian eye had been on the two secret creatures. Heavy Benson saw letters come and go in the day, and now the young gentleman was off and out... ... omen in the world, their felling the old trees. And you write such lovely letters. So pure and sweet they are. I love the nuns for having taught you.... ... tremes is similar. I find it to consist in an instinctively lavish use of vowels and adjectives. My lord and Farmer Blaize speak the same tongue, onl...

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... to introduce him to his native country by teaching him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the youngest child an English teacher. Little d... ...n beat a man if they felt that he didn't have a girlfriend evidenced when no letters and photographs were forthcoming. Then one day he was gone and so... ...," she mumbled inaudibly to herself slurring and babbling the consonants and vowels as if she were now beginning to imitate the language of her son at... ...itate the language of her son atavistically. Her calligraphy was composed of letters that were large, circular, and loosely connected. The sentences c... ...ovement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, emphasizing the accent of each German vowel and syllable exaggeratedly. She internally debated the merit of gi... ...re was no answer. Seong Seob had a program that would instantaneously change letters into sound every time the computer dialed into a server but every... ... guarantee what he will say to her at all times but I can guarantee that the vowels and syllables he uses will be benign. They will be creative and n... ...ul cards and sentiment exchanged with one's peers. She went inside to write letters of contrived gratitude to Rita/Lily and Peggy the way her son and...

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...t is descended, let the father in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How righ... ...out the same The richest librarie can be but poore. And they unblest who letters do professe And have him not: whose owne fate beates their want W... ...ers of his Quierie, was deemed fit. This man being dispatched with secret letters of credence, and instructions of an Ambassador, together with othe... ...ters of credence, and instructions of an Ambassador, together with other letters, of commendation to the Duke in favour of his particular affaires, ... ...se they had rather obeyed the literall sense, and bare words of the Kings letters, than the occasions of the affaires they had in hand. Men of under... ...explication of any worth. I am as ignorant as a childe of the phrases and vowels belonging to common things. And therefore have I atte mpted to say ...

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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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...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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...s entreated not to forget that he prolonged his consonants and swallowed his vowels, that he was guilty of elisions and interpolations which were equa... ... fanatics into his confidence as to read aloud his mother’s or his mistress’s letters. To be quiet about the Southern land, not to touch her with vulga... ...culent Irish porters, the rows of shaggy backed men in strange hats, writing letters at a table inlaid with advertisements, Selah Tarrant made innumer... ...eople. He talked some time to Olive about Mount Desert, told her that in his letters he had described the company at the different hotels. He remarked... ...indows was suspended a fly blown card, with the words ‘Table Board’ affixed in letters cut (not very neatly) out of coloured paper, of graduated tints, ... ...at it was not Olive who had sent Chapter 22 159 her the ‘Transcript’ and in letters had added some private account of the doings at the convention to...

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...y trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had los... ...iend, and another friend at your side kept up a monotonous repetition of the vowel sound A, for a couple of blocks, and then in the midst interjected ... ...used up, and had to go off to the Hot Springs. When there, I got a good many letters from commanders saying they wanted me to come Life on the Mississ... ...I was sick, Adler’s things had been sold and scattered, all except a few old letters, and some odds and ends of no value. However, through those lette... ... telegram, we learned that none of these was severely hurt, except Mr. Gray. Letters received afterward confirmed this news, and said that Mr. Gray wa... ...ed this news, and said that Mr. Gray was improving and would get well. Later letters spoke less hope fully of his case; and finally came one announci...

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...em, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” [Note: Letters to Phileleuth; Lips.] Two French writers—Hedelin and Perrault—avowe... ...tellectual attainments, and who held a distinguished rank among the men of letters in the last century, he informed us that the day before he had pass... ...d perfect his numbers he considered these as they had a greater mixture of vowels or consonants, and accordingly employed them as the verse required e... ...te, or takes off its accent, and com- pleted this variety by altering some letters with the licence of poetry. Thus his measures, instead of being fet... ...at ministers: though they are confessedly the first in the commonwealth of letters, they must be envied and calumni- ated only for being at the head o...

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...e. Our fonts of type also are small, which has frequently occasioned the necessity of using from all the fonts in the office to fill out the leading letters in the form. Of course uniformity was out of the quesion. Our office has also been much of the time without a suitable overseer or workman. But a still greater difficulty under which we have labored is the entire w...

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...aving an ‗f‘ sound or ‗e‘ at the end of a word often making the preceding vowel long. For those in the university, we teach English writing. But Simp... ...d‘ is a homophone to the color red. 72 ―Let me start with the vowels. We use the English vowels of: a, e, i, o and u. These each have th... ...We use the English vowels of: a, e, i, o and u. These each have the short vowel sound like: another, elephant, hit, hot and hut. If we want the long... ...ephant, hit, hot and hut. If we want the long sound we just underline the vowel, so: a, e, i, o and u are pronounced like: lake, leek, like, low and... ... like, low and lute. Earlier in the development of Simplish we doubled the vowel to give it a long sound, so those same words would have been written... ...itely want to avoid the problems that some languages have giving different letters or combinations of letters the same sound. For example in Norwegia... ... ‗ʃun‘ which sounds like ‗shun‘. ―We decided to keep the English letters as the hard ‗v‘ and the double ‗u‘ or ‗w‘ as 73 the soft sound... ...d the color ‗red‘ stays the same.- ―We also eliminate unused letters. Sometimes this shortens the word, like shortening ‗though‘ to ‗θo...

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...onants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easier to understand. 4 Our windpipe opening, ho... ...ymbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabet are without doubt much easier to master than hundr... ...onic structure,  Break it down into its basic sounds, and then  Match letters with the phonic elements to spell it. Forming spoken words from ... ...however, Egyptologists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound... ...ce, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguit... ...Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vow... ...ween the written and the spoken language. The Greek alphabet‘s twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese cha... ...quickly to a section with entries beginning with any one of the twenty-six letters from A to Z. Once we know our ABCs, this is a simple, easily maste...

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.... R.? And Y ou Remember. Was that his meaning? At Y our Risk. W ere the letters short for THA T reminder? Antici- pate Y our Retribution. Did the... ...dacious Y outh Repent? But no; for that, a O was happily wanting, and the vowel here was a A. I opened the packet, and found that its contents were t... ... before he touched his dinner. Three were City; three West-End. The City letters were to Cornhill, Ludgate-hill, and Farringdon Street. The West-En... ...tters were to Cornhill, Ludgate-hill, and Farringdon Street. The West-End letters were to Great Marlborough Street, New Burlington Street, and Piccad...

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...ion, I am convinced, will be radical and sanguinary.’ This appeared in the letters of the prophet long before the accomplishment of this wonderful pre... ...my heated brain burn, Sufficient that sense, wit, and grammar combined, My letters may make some slight food for the mind; _40 That my thoughts to... ...t the stranger’s sullen scowl, ‘Mortal! Mortal! thou must die,’ In burning letters chilled his soul. W W W W WARRIOR: ARRIOR: ARRIOR: ARRIOR: ARRIOR: ... ...Here the misprint, clod, which in 1868 appeared in Moxon’s edition of the “Letters of Charles Lamb”, has through five successive editions and under ma... ...back awhile, etc. (line 511.) The form leant is retained here, as the stem-vowel, though unaltered in spelling, is shortened in pronunciation. Thus le... ...rmal forms, all of them. In the case of weak preterites formed without any vowel-change, the more regu- lar formation with ed is that which has been a... ... 2 page 456. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Lines 729-732. This quatrain, as Dr. Garnett (“Letters of Shelley”, 1884, pages 166, 249) points out, is an expansion of t...

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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...