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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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...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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...Chapter 1 Should I learn Hebrew? 5 Chapter 2 The Hebrew AlephBet 15 Chapter 3 The Hebrew Vowels 20 Chapter 4 Guttural and Dagesh letters 25 Chapter 5 Syllables 28 Chapter 6 First Vocabulary, Special vowels את ו ב 31 Chapter 7 First Verse, Structure, and ה prefix 35 Chapter 8 Word Pairs and Perfect 3rd p...

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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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...like that of smart London society in its tendency to replace diphthongs by vowels (sometimes rather prettily) and to shuffle all the traditional vowel... ...for o, i for a, a for u, and e for a, with this reservation, that when any vowel is fol- lowed by an r he signifies its presence, not by pronouncing t... ... never does under these circumstances, but by prolonging and modifyinq the vowel, sometimes even to the extreme degree of pronouncing it properly. As ... ...is jacket a leather case, from which he extracts a scrappy packet of dirty letters and newspaper cuttings. These he throws on the table. 71 Captain B... ...fe gone: your doing, remember. What have I left? See here! (He take up the letters) the letters my uncle wrote to my mother, with her comments on thei... ...n their cold drawn insolence, their treachery and cruelty. And the piteous letters she wrote to him later on, returned unopened. Must they go too? LAD... ...y go too? LADY CICELY (uneasily). I can’t ask you to destroy your mother’s letters. BRASSBOUND. Why not, now that you have taken the meaning out of th... ...it. T o Felix Drinkwater also I owe some apology for implying that all his vowel pronunciations are unfashionable. They are very far from being so. As... ...mber that Drinkwater’s rs are abso- lutely unpronounced when they follow a vowel, though they 82 George Bernard Shaw modify the vowel very considerab...

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...Shorthand” is that it can express every sound in the language per- fectly, vowels as well as consonants, and that your hand has to make no stroke exce... ... a sound! [He writes; then holds out the book and reads, repro- ducing her vowels exactly] Ah—ah—ah—ow—ow—ow—oo! THE FLOWER GIRL [tickled by the perfo... ...in. I rather fancied my- self because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds; but your hundred and thirty beat me. I can’t hear a bit of di... ...tic job. MRS. HIGGINS. No use, dear. I’m sorry; but I can’t get round your vowels; and though I like to get pretty postcards in your patent shorthand,... ...iza. HIGGINS. As if I ever stop thinking about the girl and her confounded vowels and consonants. I’m worn out, thinking about her, and watching her l... ...ht. She’ll think we were drunk. PICKERING. We are, slightly. Are there any letters? HIGGINS. I didn’t look. [Pickering takes the overcoats and hats an...

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...cate with certain other things. In the alphabet and the scale there are some letters and notes which combine with others, and some which do not; and t... ...and musi cian. And there is a science which teaches not only what notes and letters, but what classes admit of combination with one another , and wha... ...STRANGER: This communion of some with some may be illustrated by the case of letters; for some letters do not fit each other, while others do. THEAETE... ...ot fit each other, while others do. THEAETETUS: Of course. STRANGER: And the vowels, especially , are a sort of bond which pervades all the other lett... ...And the vowels, especially , are a sort of bond which pervades all the other letters, so that without a vowel one consonant cannot be joined to anothe... ..., are a sort of bond which pervades all the other letters, so that without a vowel one consonant cannot be joined to another. THEAETETUS: True. STRANG... ...R: Then, now, let us speak of names, as before we were speaking of ideas and letters; for that is the direction in which the answer may be expected. T...

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... mistaking one letter for another similar one. (97) The Hebrews divide the letters of the alphabet into five classes, according to the five organs of ... ...re two oth- ers, one very important. (106) Firstly, there are in Hebrew no vowels; secondly, the sentences are not separated by any marks elucidating ... ...aff,” substituting mate for mita, from which it only differs in respect of vowels. (114) Now as in this narrative it is Jacob’s age only that is in qu... ...e head of his bed, especially as for the former reading no substitution of letters is required. (115) In this example I have desired not only to recon... ...n the twenty-eight hiatus which oc- cur, nay, even in the very form of the letters. (77) Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whe... ...ced that they often arise from the great similarity, of some of the Hebrew letters, such for in- stance, as the similarity between Kaph and Beth, Jod ... ...plain.” (85) So also many various readings have arisen from the use of the letters named mutes, which are generally not sounded in pronunciation, and ... ...r, but that the ancients only distinguished the two genders by a change of vowels. (115) I may also remark that the irregular tenses of certain verbs ...

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... back to the window. The large table is littered with pamphlets, journals, letters, nests of draw- ers, an office diary, postage scales and the like. ... ...h from each corner, a finicking arthulation, and a set of horribly corrupt vowels, notably ow for o, this being his chief means of bringing Oxford ref... ...f offering him ten. (Candida laughs heartily. Morell comes back with a few letters and newspapers which have come by the midday post.) CANDIDA. Oh, Ja... ..., dear! 20 George Bernard Shaw MORELL (at the table, glancing through the letters). Never mind her, Marchbanks. The overpaying instinct is a gener- o... ...indeed. Thank you very much. But—but— MORELL (breezily, finishing with the letters and coming close to him). But—but—but—but—bosh! If you’ d like to s... ...view. Miss Garnett, carrying the notebook in which she takes down Morell’s letters in shorthand from his dictation, sits down at the typewriter and se...

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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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...ok: but, I pray, can you read any thing you see? ROMEO: Ay, if I know the letters and the language. Servant: Ye say honestly: rest you merry! ROMEO... ...in dismal hell. Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but ‘I,’ And that bare vowel ‘I’ shall poison more Than the death darting eye of cockatrice: I am ... ...apulets lie. In the mean time, against thou shalt awake, Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, And hither shall he come: and he and I Will watch ... ...osperous In this resolve: I’ll send a friar with speed To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. JULIET: Love give me strength! and strength shall he... ...IV , scene v News from Verona!—How now, Balthasar! Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? How doth my lady? Is my father well? How fares my ... ... thou art deceived: Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. Hast thou no letters to me from the friar? BALTHASAR: No, my good lord. ROMEO: ...

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...wise man, or more than man, comprehended them all in the classes of mutes, vowels, and semivowels, and gave to 23 Plato each of them a name, and assi... ...tion of what you are saying. SOCRATES: I may illustrate my meaning by the letters of the alphabet, Protarchus, which you were made to learn 66 Phile... ...nd now let us return for an illus- tration of our principle to the case of letters. PROTARCHUS: What do you mean? SOCRATES: Some god or divine man, ... ...e was infinite, first distinguished in this in- finity a certain number of vowels, and then other letters which had sound, but were not pure vowels (i... ...istinguished in this in- finity a certain number of vowels, and then other letters which had sound, but were not pure vowels (i.e., the semivowels); t... ... exist in a definite number; and lastly, he distinguished a third class of letters which we now call mutes, without voice and without sound, and divid... ... and told the number of them, and gave to each and all of them the name of letters; and observing that none of us could learn any one of them and not ...

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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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...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, in so far as it contains the Divine law, has always preserved the same vowel-points, the same letters, or the same words (I leave this to be prove... ...tains the Divine law, has always preserved the same vowel-points, the same letters, or the same words (I leave this to be proved by, the Massoretes an...

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...d him, a whole para- graph—aye! a whole article—in which that contemptible vowel should not once—not even once—make its appearance. But no; —that woul... ... (the “Gazette”) a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful vowel— the emblem of Eternity—yet so offensive to the hyper-exquis- ite del... ...e bears evident marks of having made a narrow escape from the flames. “The letters W . V . B. are also branded very distinctly on his forehead,” inter... ...n a Blackwood article nothing makes so fine a show as your Greek. The very letters have an air of profundity about them. Only observe, madam, the astu... ...tery, and meaning, and doubt, and uncertainty is there involved in thy two letters! I entered the ominous arch- way! I entered; and, without injury to... ...st of books read by the narrator. Griswold was not above forgery (in Poe’s letters) when it suited his purpose, but would have too little to gain by s... ... For example:—very early in the morning I had to make up my packet of sham letters. Upon the inside of each of these I had to scrawl a few lines on an...

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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...

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... to extend no deeper than the mere voice and gestures. Were it not for his Letters, which are full of warm exuberant power, we might almost doubt whet... ...fort on July 20. August was spent delightfully with Lili at Offenbach; his letters speak of noth- ing but her. He wrote some scenes in Faust—the walk ... ...blished in 1877. It extends almost to the day of his death, and in- cludes letters from Eckermann giving an account of his last moments. The last twel... ...ond shutter to let in more light. After this he traced with his forefinger letters in the air. At half-past eleven in the day he drew him- self, witho... ...y saw in my mind’s eye the name of my piece posted 115 Goethe up in large letters on the corners of the streets and squares. Light-minded as my frien... ...signs, of points and strokes of all sorts, which were in fact to represent vowels. At this I wondered the more, as there were manifestly vowels in the...

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...art Ansell” were repeated again and again along the High Street—curly gold letters that seemed to float in tanks of glazed chocolate. “Rather!” said R... ...rubby. Why don’t you stop? Gerald, get the large wicker-chair. Herbert has letters, but we can sit here till lunch. It’s like spring.” The garden of S... ...cook, her face streaming with tears. Agnes nodded. Presumably it was true. Letters had just arrived: one was for Gerald from his mother. Life, which h... ...it from your letter.” “The one you never answered?” “I answer none of your letters. You are quite hope- less by now. You can go to the bad. But I refu... ...hands stretched out against an everlasting wind. Whv should she write? Her letters were not for the likes of him, nor to be read in rooms like his. “W... ...ve reason, not because they are irritated with the way the parson says his vowels.” Agnes intervened. “Well, I side with Aunt Emily. I believe in ritu...

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...EM Forster Howards End by E. M. Forster ONE MAY AS WELL BEGIN with Helen’s letters to her sis- ter. “Howards... ...- den, surely.” “Who knows!” “But, Margaret, dear—” “I’ll go for her other letters,” said Margaret. “No, I won’t, I’ll finish my breakfast. In fact, I... ...tangle that was almost a town. The station, like the scenery, like Helen’s letters, struck an indeterminate note. Into which country will it lead, Eng... ...d, and did not pretend to the contrary. She was sitting up in bed, writing letters on an invalid table that spanned her knees. A breakfast tray was on... ...se to his feet and looked out of the window, for Evie had come in with the letters, and he could meet no one’s eye. Ah yes—she had been a good woman—s... ..., Miss,’ and there we were. “Lan?” “Lan or Len. We were not nice about our vowels. Lanoline. “ “But what an extraordinary—” “I said, ‘My good Mrs. Lan...

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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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...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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...ear in these brief verses! They showed themselves then in five times seven vowels and consonants; and I noted the parts as they seemed spo- ken to me.... ...dness of Saturn. 8 The sparkles of the love which was there. 9 The first letters of Diligite, as shortly appears. 10 An appellation appropriate to ... ...at which teaches the bird to build its nest, directed the shaping of these letters. 13 Ingigliare, a word invented by Dante, and used only by him. Th... ...erstand how little worth he is, the writing for him shall be in contracted letters which shall note much in small space. And to every one shall be app...

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...t. The chief consideration for us is, what particu- lar practice of Art in letters is the best for the perusal of the Book of our common wisdom; so th... ...epted invitations to the Hall, she assisted at the reading of Willoughby’s letters to his family, and fed on dry husks of him wherein her name was not... ...achment, no longer extremely dis- turbing, to judge from the tenour of his letters; really in- comparable letters! Lady Busshe and Mrs. Mountstuart Je... ...red as a splendid young representative island lord in these 24 The Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United S... ...bsurd; where we contrasted, they were monstrous. The contrast of V ernon’s letters with Willoughby’s was just as extreme. You could hardly have taken ... ...ild. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you shall bring the vowels I and A, in verbally detached letters, into collision, that you do n...

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...t service in the final revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very... ...he boring care of its bored hireling for another day. The nurse writes her letters, mends her clothes, reads and thinks of the natu- ral interests of ... ...hall and will, and the confusion of reconstruction is world-wide among our vowels. The German w of Mr. Samuel Weller has been oblit- erated within the... ... in social intercourse the child will have picked up names for some of the letters of the alphabet, but there is no great hurry for that before five c... ...out the child that need to be thoroughly learnt, and a premature attack on letters divides attention from these more appropriate and educational objec... ...ght. There is, of course, also the suggestion that an English Acad- emy of Letters might be of great service in discounting vul- gar “successes” and d...

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... of Paganism, there arose two consequences, which I will mark by the Greek letters [Greek text] and [Greek text]. The latter I will notice in its orde... ...in, whilst amiably engaged in hunting Servetus to death, and writing daily letters to his friends, in which he expresses his hope that the executive p... ...the dreadful skirmish. Person even, the all-accomplished Gre- cian, in his letters to Archdeacon T ravis, took a conspicuous part in the controversy; ... ...are that F is V , and that, in many languages, B and V are interchangeable letters through thousands of words, as the Italian tavola, from the Latin t... ...ily, connections; yet, in the course of a few pages, does Cicero, a man of letters, pol- ished to the extreme standard of Rome, address him by the ele... ...elves virtu- ally new. The same Hebrew words are read by different sets of vowel points, and the same hieroglyphics are deciphered by keys everlasting...

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.... And thus a rumour had grown up. And hen the butcher had written repeated letters to the bishop— to bishop Proudie of Barchester, who had first cause... ...butcher. It was very grievous to such a man as Mr Crawley to receive these letters from such a man as Bishop Proudie; but the letters came, and made f... ...ried to write the word ‘steal’ but she could not bring her pen to form the letters) ‘is monstrous. But, some- how, the circumstances have been made to... ...Your most sincere friend, ‘Julia De Guest.’ Lady Julia always directed her letters for her young friend to his office, and there he received the one n... ...did write a dozen 141 Anthony Trollope notes in answer to as many private letters addressed to his chief, Sir Raffle Buffle, in all of which he made ... ...ing. The angles were very acute, and the lines were very straight, and the vowels looked to be cruel and false, with their sharp points and their open...

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...y’s char- acter. They can boast of nothing more than having read Nymriey’s Letters and Correspondence, published, fortunately for him, when he was no ... ... agreement with the person to whom I have, I fear foolishly, entrusted the letters and documents of a story surpassing ancient as well as modern in th... ...he Amazing Marriage would break Chillon’s heart.’ Livia pished. ‘There are letters we read before we crack the seal. She is out of that ditch, and it ... ...lang of bells rang through his head in the reading of Gower’s lines. Other letters were opened: from the Countess Livia, from Lady Arpington, from Cap... ...way. 219 George Meredith Arrived in town, he ran over the headings of his letters, in no degree anxious for a communication from Wales. There was non... ... of explanation from Edwards, the guttural gabble rattled up to the shrill vowels. Fleetwood’s endurance broke short. The packed small room, the caged...

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...hip of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning this pe... ...illezais, to whom in 1535 and 1536 he ad- dressed from Rome the three news letters, which alone have been preserved; and in 1534 he dedicated from Lyo... ...le and quite simple, but cannot with certainty be attrib- uted to him. His letters are bombastic and thin; his few at- tempts at verse are heavy, lumb... ... no gift of poetic form, as indeed is evident even from his prose. And his letters from Rome to the Bishop of Maillezais, interesting as they are in r... ... on the top with the mark of a goblet, about which was written in Etrurian letters Hic Bibitur, they found nine flagons set in such order as they use ... ...h may result from the combinations of all the consonants, with each of the vowels heretofore projected, reckoned, and calculated by the noble Xenocrat...

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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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... did the affairs of the great world interest her, when communicated in the letters of high born relations: the way in which fascinating younger sons h... ...k 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... ...e way of business he did well. He contemplated the large well proportioned letters and final flourish, with his head a trifle on one side for an instant,... ... 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... ...place, the scorn and indignation within her rejecting the reading of these letters, just as we hurl away any trash towards which we seem to have been ... ...he least divine the subtle sources of her husband’s bad temper about these letters: she only knew that they had caused him to offend her. She began to...

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... much speech. Know them in sum, that all of them were clerks, And men of letters great and of great fame, In the world tainted with the selfsame s... ...sight; And with the fingers of the right hand spread I found but six the letters, that had carved Upon my temples he who bore the keys; Upon behol... ...n these brief verses! Themselves then they displayed in five times seven Vowels and consonants; and I observed The parts as they seemed spoken unt... ...life; And to declare how pitiful he is Shall be his record in contracted letters Which shall make note of much in little space. And shall appear t...

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...resent traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a language, the vowels, are well developed in Finnish, and their due sequence is subject to... ...tance, and prefers alliteration. Their alphabet con sists of but nineteen letters, and of these, b, c, d, f, g, are found only in a few foreign words...