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... pos sess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age. Greek and Latin were as familiar to them as the bab ble of their childhood.... ...ged men, grandfathers like myself, to whom Master Cheever had taught their alphabet. He was a person of venerable aspect, and wore a long white beard.... ...ponderous folios, and quar tos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at ... ...acted an air of deep erudition, as if its cushion were stuffed with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and other hard matters. In this chair, from one year’s e...

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...too horribly, they would need to become children, and begin to learn their alphabet, which they imagine that they have long since outgrown. Therefore ... ...truction for children and the simple-minded. Hence of old it was called in Greek catechism, i.e., instruction for children, what every Christian must ... ...really nothing else than a common assembly and is not German by idiom, but Greek (as is also the word ecclesia); for in their own language they call i... ...ack. The Seventh and Last Petition. But deliver us from evil. Amen. In the Greek text this petition reads thus: Deliver or preserve us from the Evil O...

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...r coun- try. She knew French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, He- brew, Greek, Latin, Cappadocian, Samothracian, Aegean, and Crim Tartar. In a word... ... a Y ; then an X; then a W, and went so backwards through almost the whole alphabet. When she came to D, and it wasn’t D, she grew very ex- cited; whe...

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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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... on the staircase, and she slipped her paper between the leaves of a great Greek dictionary which she had purloined from her father’s room for this pu... ...he poor men’s college. He lectures there—Roman law, you know, or it may be Greek. The landlady said Mr. Alardyce only slept there about once a fortnig... ...books, and then at his pictures. It was while she held photograph from the Greek in her hands that she exclaimed, impulsively, if incongruously: “My o... ...ed the steep cliff of his forehead, and compared it to the brow of a young Greek horseman, who reins his horse back so sharply that it half falls on i... ...im. “The ruins—my party is waiting for me at the ruins. The Roman ruins—or Greek, Mr. Denham? Your town has a great many beautiful things in it, but I... ...taken her, and she asserted, half seriously, that she had learnt the Greek alphabet, and found it “fascinating.” The word was underlined. Had she laug... ...arine, consulting the pages once more. “In fact— ah, here it is—’The Greek alphabet is absolutely fascinat- ing.’ Obviously she does care.” “Well, Gre...

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...s hieroglyphic presentment, from hieroglyphics to the al- phabet, from the alphabet to written language, of which the eloquent beauty resides in a ser... ...taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and from the sacred Boo...

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...n wall, through long meadows. In Winter the wild ducks made letters of the alphabet flying. On the other side of the copses bounding our home, there w... ...’s!’ said Temple. The firemen were on the roofs of the houses, handsome as Greek heroes, and it really did look as if they were engaged in slaying an ... ...dig- nity reflect on the dreadful hiatus in our studies. ‘Is that Latin or Greek?’ he asked. I would not reply to the cold-blooded question. He said t... ...ly to the cold-blooded question. He said the New T estament was written in Greek, he knew, and happy were those who could read it in the original. ‘We... ...ions. Temple said to him, ‘If the Archbishop of Canterbury were to tell me Greek and Latin authors are bad for me, I should listen to his re- marks, b... ...u may.’ ‘No, no, Captain Welsh,’ says Temple: ‘you must grind at Latin and Greek when you ‘re a chick, or you won’t ever mas- 127 George Meredith ter... ...ish gentlemen, silk you spin from your lips; it is not as a language of an alphabet; it is pleasant to hear when one would lull, but Italian can do th... ... little stupid boy who cannot learn his lesson and plays the fool with the alphabet. You smile, Miss Ilchester: you would appreciate Jorian. Modern wi...

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...on, however, that it actually occurs only in the Slavonic version from the Greek, and not in the Russian translation made direct from the Hebrew. 10 ... ... bib with which the footman had encircled it. On hear- ing this distinctly Greek name (to which, for some un- known reason, Manilov always appended th... ...herish a prejudice against the ini- tial character of the word—namely, the Greek theta, or th. 93 Gogol “Do not insult me with the term Thetuk,” reto... ...pictures. In every such picture there were por- trayed either young men or Greek generals of the type of Movrogordato (clad in a red uniform and breac... ...neath him, and the whole set in the narrowest of frames—and, secondly, the Greek heroine, Bobelina, whose legs looked larger than do the whole bodies ... ...hird in topsy- turvy characters of a kind never before seen in the Russian alphabet, and so forth. Meanwhile our friend Ivan Antonovitch comported him... ...t themselves properly, even if they fail to learn a single letter of their alphabet: whereas to those in whom I may perceive a tendency to jocularity ...

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...who instantly replied, in a shrill monotone, like a little boy repeating the alphabet, “As I was remarking, your Sub Excellency, this portentous move... ...crazy songs! “He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was The Middle of Next Week.... ...so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar—if only he might stand on his head to learn it! And your c... ...d Sylvie. Her function seemed to be much the same as that of the Chorus in a Greek Play: she had to encourage the orator, and draw him out, by a serie...

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...stead of a wall of logs; nor had it been distinguished by the trian- gular Greek pediment on carved posts; but all the same it had been a capital inn—... ...e blood from them, and at once dropped them. “Do you see? I wash them with Greek scented soap.... Sniff! Oh, but don’t kiss them.... I did not do it f... ...ries gunpowder, stood out sharply, looking like some letter of an oriental alphabet. She almost closed her eyes but their pupils glimmered dimly under...

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... is taught. We are snatched away from our study before we have learned the alphabet. As the world now exists, I confess it to you frankly, my dear pas... ...was written. There seemed to be Latin words, and some interspersed ones in Greek characters, and here and there he could doubtfully read an English se... ...ously with the vernacular, or used both indiscrimi nately. There was some Greek, too, but not much. Then fre quently came in the cipher, to the stud...

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... old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near ... ...nts of English; gave him ideas of count- ing; even made the thing read the alphabet. But at that he was slow, though I’ve met with idiots slower. He b...

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...ff at the top. Drachenflieger. Drachenballons. Ballonstoffe. Kugelballons. Greek to me. “But he was trying to sell his blessed secret abroad. That’s a... ...“But he was trying to sell his blessed secret abroad. That’s all right. No Greek about that! Gollys! Here is the secret!” He tumbled off the seat, ope... ...ty about the spelling because of the different names of the letters of the alphabet in the two languages. “And now, Mr. Schmallvays,” he said at last,... ...e nowadays ‘aven’t no idee of a shop—no idee. Plate-glass winders—it’s all Greek to them. Why, I’ve ‘ad as much as a ton and a ‘arf of petaties to ‘an...

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...ways coming and going across the Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount an... ...ling and lounging in and out of the City , on questions of the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount an... ... being bound to be made late, by private information about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount an... ...Miss Peecher’s tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet. And Mental Arithmetic, administered by Miss Peecher, often devote...

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... identified on the blurred stone, puzzled here and there by the unfamiliar Greek convention, but delighted as a child at each new trove. Where the seq... ... gained by due attention to Latin and Wordsworth’s Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim). French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in C... ... had an arrow or two in his quiver. He went on: ‘I am but a teacher of the alphabet. I have learned all the wisdom of the Sahibs.’ ‘The Sahibs never ...

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... Dallases”; and he perceived that she was going through their two families alphabetically, and that they were only in the first quarter of the alphabe... ...e represented by some small slender tables of dark wood, a delicate little Greek bronze on the chimney-piece, and a stretch of red damask nailed on th... ...a person; as if she might have been chosen to pose for a Civic Virtue or a Greek goddess. The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been...

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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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...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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...o far as mutilation is concerned, bears a strong resemblance to the finest Greek sculpture, and especially in the total loss of its nose. Near it ther... .... That is a long and hard lesson, and Adam had at present only learned the alphabet of it in his father’s sudden death, which, by anni- hilating in an... ...ideas than in the dry process of acquiring the mere human knowledge of the alphabet. Indeed, he had been already a little shaken in his resolution by ... ...er wanted hardly, and he thought it had only been there “to finish off th’ alphabet, like, though ampusand (&) would ha’ done as well, for what he cou... ...f petty annoyances.” “Ah, my boy, it is not only woman’s love that is [two greek words omitted] as old AEschylus calls it. There’s plenty of ‘unloving...

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...oman began the task, and very soon, by her assistance, I was master of the alphabet, and could spell words of three or four letters. My mistress seeme... ...e first, and never to be retraced, step had been taken. In teaching me the alphabet, in the days of her simplicity and kindness, my mistress had given... ...ference, implied by the names, and the peculiar duties of each, were alike Greek to me. Why was not the “off ox” called the “in ox?” Where and what is...