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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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...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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...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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...under our garden wall, through long meadows. In Winter the wild ducks made letters of the alphabet flying. On the other side of the copses bounding ou... ...lance of entreaty and her downfallen eyelashes. I guessed that in Heriot’s letters to her he wanted to make her confess something, which she would not... ... their not possessing one like mine. My anxiety was relieved by my writing letters to my father, addressed to the care of Miss Julia Rippenger, and po... ...at he wanted it in writing. She re- quested him to deliver up her previous letters. Thereupon he charged me with a lengthy epistle, which plunged us i... ... the captain; ‘no whis- pering in passages, no appointments in gardens, no letters. I spoke out. Bravely, man! And now, Greg, referring to the state o... ...e of a city and pronounce it; one gave us lessons in the expression of the vowels, with the softening of three of them, which seemed like a regula- ti...

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...ct, none worse could have been suggested; unless, perhaps, it had been the Letters of Madame de Sevigne, or the Fables of La Fontaine; in both of whic... ...o longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities4 enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the chief objects were to discharge some a... ...an be read into very different senses according to the differ- ent sets of vowels which the particular reader may choose to interpolate. According to ... ... of the case. But next came the retaliatory conquest, by means of arts and letters. How was this to be dealt with? What shadow or dream of a correspon...

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...f twenty-four, is hardly to modify his diet. But I was now escaped out of the shadow of the Roman empire, under whose toppling monuments we were all c... ...ian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua... ...s Stevenson by Vaekehu as a grandson; Miss Fisher, of Hatiheu, as a daughter. From that day, Monseigneur never addressed the young lady except as his ... ...t to sixty Chinamen and seventy natives, he found himself once more in dan- gerous times. The men of Haamau, it was reported, had sworn to plunder and... ...n purpose to enjoy it. I have been ship- mates with a man, no longer young, who sailed upon that voyage, his first time to sea, for the mere love of S... ...o with it? Mr. Donat, acting magistrate and a man of kin- 122 In The South Seas dred blood, could throw no light upon the mystery; a plain private pe...

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...glish. The result was that, between the two, they made such a fricassee of vowels and consonants that it was enough to turn one’s brain. The next morn... ...it was that, had Ereemear’s guests travelled with purses, portmanteau, and letters of introduction to the queen, they could not have been better cared...

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...nt. ‘Why, I hope not,’ returned Mr Swiveller, ‘but the av erage number of letters it take to soften her is six, and this time we have got as far as e... ...s the school master, and had ‘School’ written up over his window in black letters on a white board. He was a pale, simple looking man, of a spare an... ... said, ‘read that.’ Nell walked down it, and read aloud, in enormous black letters, the inscription, ‘Jarley’s WAX WORK.’ ‘Read it again, ’ said the l... ... you mean?’ ‘—But the name, ’ said Dick—’has left but the name— in case of letters or parcels—’ ‘I never have any,’ returned the lodger. ‘Or in the ca... ...l satisfaction and affection ate anxiety, and often indited square folded letters to his mother, enclosing a shilling or eighteenpence or such other ... ...ow of reason that he would have said Buffon, but made use of a superfluous vowel. Be this as it may, Quilp gave him no time for correction, as he perf...

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...f in later life. It is strange from this point of view to see his childish letters to Mrs. Jackson; and to think that a man, distinguished above all b... ...a boy; but as the reader knows, it was but the first act of the piece. The letters, vivid as they are, written as they were by a hand trembling with f... ...he amazed his family by learning and singing ‘Mourir pour Patrie.’ But the letters, though they prepare the mind for no such revolution in the boy’s t... ...walk from his lodgings to the works, I find a graphic sketch in one of his letters: ‘Out over the railway bridge, along a wide road raised to the leve... ... this time of his early married life, by a few sustained extracts from his letters to his wife, while she was absent on a visit in 1864. ‘NOV. 11. – S... ... of articulate language and the foundations of literary art; his papers on vowel sounds, his papers in the Saturday Review upon the laws of verse, and...

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...le sounds, none of which I call a letter. The sound I mean may be either a vowel, a semi-vowel, or a mute. A vowel is that which without impact of ton... ...is that which without impact of tongue or lip has an audible sound. A semi-vowel, that which with such impact has an audible sound, as S and R. A mute... ... mute, that which with such impact has by itself no sound, but joined to a vowel sound becomes audible, as G and D. These are distin- guished accordin... ... on metre. A Syllable is a non-significant sound, composed of a mute and a vowel: for GR without A is a syllable, as also with A,— GRA. But the invest... ...on rho epsilon upsilon sigma}, ‘priest.’ A word is lengthened when its own vowel is exchanged for a longer one, or when a syllable is inserted. A word... ...d—of vowels that admit of lengthening—those in {alpha}. Thus the number of letters in which nouns masculine and feminine end is the same; for {psi} an...

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...sions, Lady Bertram dispatched money and baby linen, and Mrs. Norris wrote the letters. Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelve month a m... ... it 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.... ...ll possible fatigue or exertion in every particular, but that of directing her letters. The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival in A... ... governess being sick or run away, and the mother in and out every moment with letters of business; and I could hardly get a word or a look from the y... ... their family,” said Fanny, colouring for William’s sake, “they can write long letters.” “Miss Price has a brother at sea,” said Edmund, “whose excell... ... for, 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 ...

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...id the affairs of the great world interest her, when com- municated in the letters of high-born relations: the way in which fascinating younger sons h... ...lk must be belles-lettres. That is wi-ide.” Naumann’s pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, bu... ... exasperating in marriage than in philosophy. Dorothea left Ladislaw’s two letters unread on her husband’s writing-table and went to her own place, th... ...ace, the scorn and indig- nation within her rejecting the reading of these letters, just as we hurl away any trash towards which we seem to have been ... ...ch had been given to her the day before, she felt that she was forming her letters beautifully, and it seemed to her that she saw the construction of ... ...bon might now at any moment wish to enter. On his writing-table there were letters which had lain untouched since the morning when he was taken ill, a... ...in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up...

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...m to skip from consonant to consonant, until, lighting upon a broad, open vowel, they rest upon that to restore the balance of sound. The women car... ...always sent for by the captain and officers to get provisions, or to carry letters and messages to different parts of the town. I was often sent to... ...rewell. Underneath were printed the initials of his own name, and two other letters, standing for some name which he knew better than I did. This wa... ...them by as mere ‘‘yarns,’’ till our arrival, when they were confirmed by the letters which we brought from the owners to their agent. The ship Cali- ... ...g, and spent the rest of the day in reading and writing. Several of us wrote letters to send home by the Lagoda. At twelve o’clock the Ayacucho dropp... ...nd we made sail, dropping slowly down with the tide and light wind. We left letters with Captain Bradshaw to take to Boston, and had the satisfacti...

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...nown to the Muhammadans themselves even in the first century. Possibly the letters Ha, Mim, which are prefixed to numer- ous successive Suras were pri... ...are prefixed to numer- ous successive Suras were private marks, or initial letters, at- tached by their proprietor to the copies furnished to Said whe... ...en effecting his recension of the text under Othman. In the same way , the letters prefixed to other Suras may be mono- grams, or abbreviations, or in... ...s prefixed to other Suras may be mono- grams, or abbreviations, or initial letters of the names of the persons to whom the copies of the respective Su... ...i. 396 ff.) in the sixth year before the Hejira. 2 Freytag supposes these letters to mean, Hush! but see Sura lxviii. 1, p. 32. 3 Lit. if thou raise... ... the inspiration of their prophet. But it should be borne in mind that the vowel points of the consonants of the Arabic word for defeated in verse 1, ... ...omp. Matth. xix. 24; Mark x. 25; Luke xviii. 25. By the change of a single vowel in the Arabic word for camel, we obtain the rendering, cable. In the ...

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...peared to me that any thinking be- ing should feel otherwise. The complete letters shed, indeed, a light on the depths to which Burns had sunk in his ... ...urt of Versailles; and the days were distinguished from each other by love-letters, meetings, tiffs, reconciliations, and expan- sions to the chosen c... ...here are no truer things said of Burns than what is to be found in his own letters. Country Don Juan as he was, he had none of that blind vanity which... ...urgh popularity was but an ovation and the affair of a day. He wrote a few letters in a high-flown, bom- bastic vein of gratitude; but in practice he ... ...he had never shared the disease. At the same time, amid the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true expressions, and the love verses that h... ...an equality of accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the...