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...ate warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of kn... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...wer and wealth to a growing literate populace. CHAPTER 5 The alphabet made the pen mightier than the sword. It generated powers of know... ...rching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from ... ...made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabet ... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m...

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... I will have recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic ma... ...s it that you wish to be drawn up?” Valentine named all the letters of the alphabet until she came to W . At this letter the eloquent eye of Noirtier ... ...rom M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awf... ...- ful to conceal it from every one. After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for... ...be seen without doing so? Elssler was dancing in the ‘Diable Boiteux;’ the Greek princess was in ecstasies. After the cachucha he placed a magnificent... ...rd act, to do honor to the gift, reappeared with it on her finger. And the Greek princess, — will she be here?” “No, you will be deprived of that plea... ...tand, grandfather,” said the young girl. “He pointed to each letter of the alphabet. At the letter S the old man stopped her. She opened, and found th... ...y. Franz took it with a nervous trembling, and repeated the letters of the alphabet succes- sively, until he came to M. At that letter the old man sig... ... to converse with him?” Monte Cristo turned to Albert. “Do you know modern Greek,” asked he. “Alas, no,” said Albert; “nor even ancient Greek, my dear...

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...or hours, repeat the sen- tence which he had reeled up. He had reduced the alphabet 73 Rudyard Kipling to eleven primitive sounds, and tried to teach... ...r of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek antiquity man.” The policeman knew nothing except the rules of the Mu... ...he. “So far as I can ascertain it is an attempt to write extremely corrupt Greek on the part” —here he glared at me with intention— “of an extremely i... ...e the most marvel- ous tale in the world, nothing less than the story of a Greek galley-slave, as told by himself. Small wonder that his dream- ing ha... ...rstand metempsychosis, and a sound commer- cial education does not include Greek. He would supply m~here I capered among the dumb gods of Egypt and la... ... Charlie had spoken nothing that might not lie within the experiences of a Greek galley-slave. But now, or there was no virtue in books, he had talked...

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... have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings ... ... books and learned by rote in chorus. In one voice, the children learn the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the English language; children's happy...

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...stions – Two-person and Parlor Games Game 1 Confusing Words Chapter 4–PREFIXES & SUFFIXES Game Suggestions – Two-person and Parlor Games Game 1 Greek Prefixes & Meaning Greek Suffixes & Meaning Latin Prefixes & Meaning Chapter 5–FREQUENTLY MISSPELLED WORDS Game Suggestions – Two-person and Parlor Games Game 1 Game 2 Frequently Misspelled Words Chapter 6–COMMO...

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... died in honour and Lavinia’s cause. Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous: The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax That slew himself; and wise Laertes’ son... ... Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign, But I of these will wrest an alphabet And by still practise learn to know thy meaning. Young LUCIUS : ... ...Dido’s sad attending ear The story of that baleful burning night When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam’s Troy, Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch’d our...

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...tures, that she already knows the two first letters in 37 Jane Austen the Alphabet, and that she never tears her frocks—. If I have not now convince... ... the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman and famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting. It was in the reign of Henry the 7t... ...ter in law the Lady Jane Grey, who has been al- ready mentioned as reading Greek. Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study ... ...conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sen- tence in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her Husband accidentally passing that way....

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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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...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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..., a chapter of the Septuagint, and, moreover, having had his lesson in the Greek T estament.” “Ay,” said his mother, “and I have sewn a sprig of witch... ...planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical a... ...follow, and would not barter one iota of her own supreme power for all the alphabet of both Cupid and Hymen.” 223 Sir Walter Scott “The better for yo... ...look ye, there is another— a very learned man, I promise you, and can vent Greek and Hebrew as fast as I can Thieves’ Latin he has an humour of sympat... ...sequent— raro antecedentem, as Doctor Bircham was wont to say. But this is Greek to you now, honest Lawrence, and in sooth learn- ing is dry work. Han...

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...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ...al way of saying things that he might as well address her in the deaf mute’s alphabet. “I don’t think I know what you mean,” she said; “you use too ma... ...ence. It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; whic...

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...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and the...

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...ate warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of kn... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...wer and wealth to a growing literate populace. CHAPTER 5 The alphabet made the pen mightier than the sword. It generated powers of know... ...rching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from ... ...made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabe... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...re missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m...

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...Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained....

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... is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation ... ...- ity, rusticity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek Paganism, distinguishes this Scandinavian Sys- tem. It is Thought; th... ...l good Thought in all times. Not graceful lightness, half-sport, as in the Greek Paganism; a certain homely truthfulness and rustic strength, a great ... ...re of all Beauty; curious:—but he is careful not to insinuate that the old Greek Mythists had any notion of lecturing about the “Philosophy of Critici... ...ked by them, make a great feature in tradition. Runes are the Scandinavian Alphabet; suppose Odin to have been the inventor of Letters, as well as “ma... ... Runes has some air of being original among the Norsemen: not a Phoenician Alphabet, but a native Scandi- 27 On Heroes navian one. Snorro tells us fa... ... in it? More true metal, rough from the Mimer-stithy, than in many a famed Greek Mythus shaped far better! A great broad Brobdignag grin of true hu- m... ...omas Carlyle read, in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to ...

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...age, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more lasting than brass—a [Greek: chtaema es aei]—a murder such in quality as any murder that he would... ...ed as if built in brick; whereas, had it been so happy as to be written in Greek, then it would have been a palace built in Parian marble. Indeed! tha... ...on, though quite content with it in English, still could have wished it in Greek. That’s No. 2. Bentley, though admiring the blind old poet in the hig... ...arpe, M. P ., twenty-five years ago, well known as River Sharpe, from the [Greek: aperantologia] of his conversation, used to say, that one or both of... ...ual fate, Fox was complimented, whilst living, on his knowledge of Homeric Greek, which was a jest: he knew neither more nor less of Homer, than, fort... ...tand- ing in civil life or in science be represented by the letters of the alphabet; in Grecian life each man would separately go through all the lett...

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...an they do now, and they will in many cases be learning Russian instead of Greek or German. More of our boys will be going into the public service, an... ...pe that the Oxford and Cambridge of unphilosophical classics and Little-go Greek for everybody, don’s mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all Europe... ...peak it rather worse than a third-rate Babu speaks English, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do no... ...xercises” to practice. There is a pretence of studying philosophy based on Greek texts that few of the teachers and none of the taught can read comfor... ...forming” value of any study that does not go through to an end. Manifestly Greek must be dropped as a part of the general curriculum for a highly edu-... ... a Frenchman or Englishman learning Russian is the difficult and confusing alphabet; the chief obstacle to anyone learning English is the irrational s... ...ngua franca of which the world has need. And in the same way, the phonetic alphabet adopted as the English medium could be used as the medium for in- ... ...ian letter- ing—I speak from the point of view of those who read the Latin alphabet. How confusing it may be only those who have tried it can tell. It... ...l the instruction in Russian of which I can get an account begins with the alphabet, and must, I suppose, begin with the alphabet until teachers have ...

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... TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET................................................................................................................................. 169 AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY....................................................

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...................................... ..................... 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET...................................................................... ...iard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the man’s re... ...e up of the facts of life, not creations. It took centuries to develop the Greek drama. It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came... ...and will fiercely fight for them. As instances, you have all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the German... ...ece! Well, now, that is just astonishing! Born there?” “No.” “Do you speak Greek?” “Yes.” “Now, ain’t that strange! I never expected to live to see th... ...being a great widower haveing lost sev eral wives. Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days. John Bright is noted for... ... see, and in the second place to understand what he does see. A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET ( ( ( ( ( T T T T This ar his ar his ar his ar his article ticle t... ...ste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. That is to say, a new alphabet. The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. It doesn’t... ...esn’t know how to spell, and can’t be taught. In this it is like all other alphabets except one—the phonographic. This is the only competent alphabet ...

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...have chosen, after the fashion of the ancient Romans, fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon. CHAPTER I THAT THE TREASURE OF WISDOM IS CHIEFLY... ...at she has already visited the Indians, the Babylonians, the Egyp tians and Greeks, the Arabs and the Romans. Now she has passed by Paris, and now ha... ...rather a microcosm in itself, that she may show herself a debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians. At which wondrous sight it is conceived by ... ...e done, if they had not seen the productions of Athens or the volumes of the Greeks? Certes, little would Jerome, master of three languages, The Philo... ... Richard de Bury 42 Ambrosius, Augustine, though he confesses that he hated Greek, or even Gregory, who is said to have been wholly ignorant of it, h... ...wrote. For Julius put the fourth letter for the first, and so on through the alphabet; whilst Augustus used the second for the first, the third for th... ...wherever they find an extra margin about the text, furnish it with monstrous alphabets, or if any other frivolity strikes their fancy, at once their p...

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...re we venture to receive it as offered in good faith and loyalty. Even the Greeks are nearly in the same [Greek text], when they wish to speak of reli... ...erious praise. Some circuitous form, commending the correctness of a man, [Greek text], in respect of divine things, becomes requisite; for all the di... ...ing the religious tem- per, are preoccupied by a taint of scorn. The word [Greek text], means pious,—not as regards the gods, but as regards the dead;... ..., means pious,—not as regards the gods, but as regards the dead; and even [Greek text], though not used sneeringly, is a world short of our word ‘reli... ...w as to be untranslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and, [Greek text], A system of mysteries; as, for instance, the mystery of the T ... ...custom established of meeting together in se- cret, of corresponding by an alphabet of conventional sig- nals, and of acting by an impenetrable organi...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...kind of gloss of antique novelty to his work. He fabricated words, too, on Greek and Latin models, with great ease, sometimes audaciously and with nee... ...ucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more permeated even than Mont... ...hereof into four-and-twenty equal parts, then form a several letter of the alphabet upon every one of them; and, lastly, posit a barleycorn or two upo...

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...y to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sente... ... exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almi... ...truly strange, and heretical, and un popular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling block. There are, indeed... ...and swathed in linen; the death of that which never lived. But the rays of Greek poetry struggle down to us, and mingle with the sunbeams of the recen... ...een liberal, and its implied wit can endow a college. The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of eve... ...insects that dodge between them. Leaves are of more various forms than the alphabets of all languages put together; of the oaks alone there are hardly...

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...us much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. Areopagitica Milton 8 The Romans also, for many ages trained ... ...l the learning of the Egyp Areopagitica Milton 13 tians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all so... ...hought it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwith stand... ...ended with their uses, motives, marks, and means, out of which, as out of an alphabet, or sol fa, by forming and transforming, joining and disjoining ...

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...trated by many Scriptural instances, and can further cite Paul, who to the Greeks was a Greek, and to the Jews a Jew. (58) But although these miracles... ...letter for another similar one. (97) The Hebrews divide the letters of the alphabet into five classes, according to the five organs of the month emplo... ...n sci- ence and languages, and as I do not myself possess a knowl- edge of Greek sufficiently exact for the task; lastly, as we have lost the original...

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...ife than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ... pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have al ways been regretting that I was not as wise as the day... ...it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Aeschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that h... ...st be born again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues in the Middle Ages were not en titled by the accid... ...s of genius written in those languages; for these were not written in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. T...

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...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused... ...studies theology, and writes a very formal Latin, to which he often adds a Greek postscript. T o another brother, holding the place of mercantile cler... ...nd I concentrated all my attention when we came to the letters. I found an alphabet something like the Greek, of which the forms were easy, and the na... ...ention when we came to the letters. I found an alphabet something like the Greek, of which the forms were easy, and the names, for the most part, not ... ...At this I wondered the more, as there were manifestly vowels in the larger alphabet; and the others only appeared to be hidden under strange appellati...

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... class. Then came a boyish attempt to join the fortunes of the insur- gent Greeks, which ended at St. Petersburg, where he got into difficulties throu... ... brought into vogue. All is limpid and serene, with a pleasant dash of the Greek Helicon in it. The melody of the whole, too, is remarkable. It is not... ...finer sort which the inner ear alone can estimate. It seems simple, like a Greek column, because of its perfection. In a poem named “Ligeia,” under wh... ... character is 8, we will commence by assum- ing it as the e of the natural alphabet. T o verify the supposition, let us observe if the 8 be seen often... ...f the word commencing with the first t; since, by experiment of the entire alphabet for a letter adapted to the vacancy, we perceive that no word can ... ...s th can be a part. We are thus narrowed into t ee, and, going through the alphabet, if necessary, as before, we arrive at the word ‘tree,’ as the sol... ... baboon; but by no means the less a deity. His name is a derivation of the Greek Simia—what great fools are anti- quarians! But see! —see! —yonder sca... ... singu- larly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that ...

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...e over the city and permitted the inhabitants to practise their own faith, Greek Christianity. Prior to the Mongol invasion, which brought conflagrati... ...if it warred for its existence it warred not less for its faith, which was Greek. Indeed, as the nation grew stron- ger and became conscious of its st... ...man was free to join the brother- hood it was obligatory to believe in the Greek faith. It was this religious unity, blazed into activity by the pres-... ...then suddenly voices were raised and all the shore spoke:— *That is of the Greek Church. The Poles were Catholics. *Lyakhs, an opprobrious name for th... ...onour our land has always been held by all. We made ourselves known to the Greeks, and we took gold from Constantinople, and our cities were luxurious... ... the fashionable artists? Why do I worry, and toil like a learner over the alphabet, when I might shine as brightly as the rest, and have money, too, ...

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...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In short, I am, as to classical education, another Shakespear. I ... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ...necessary ends. It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indis- pensable gymnast... ...true, it need not trouble us. But it is a fact that ignorance of Latin and Greek and mathematics closes certain careers to men (I do not mean artifici...

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...im to our gratitude rests. To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek, or Hebrew, butters no parsnips. To make the Negro work, that is what... ...d an old copy of Webster’s “blue-back” spelling- book, which contained the alphabet, followed by such meaningless words as “ab,” “ba,” “ca,” “da.” I b... ...I had learned from somebody that the way to begin to read was to learn the alphabet, so I tried in all the ways I could think of to learn it,—all of c... ...le. In some way, within a few weeks, I mastered the greater portion of the alphabet. In all my efforts to learn to read my mother shared fully my ambi... ..., in the minds of a large part of the race. One of these was the craze for Greek and Latin learning, and the other was a desire to hold office. It cou... ...bour. There was a further feeling that a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin lan- guages would make one a very superior human being, som... ... to the extent that they were at Hamp- ton. They knew more about Latin and Greek when they left school, but they seemed to know less about life and it... ...hey felt of their accom- plishment. Some had studied Latin, and one or two Greek. This they thought entitled them to special distinction. In fact, one...

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...pt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonet- 4 Pygmalion ics. Once, in the days when the Imperial... ...logies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.] THE DAUGHTER.... ... Who are you? THE NOTE TAKER. Henry Higgins, author of Higgins’s Universal Alphabet. PICKERING [with enthusiasm] I came from India to meet you. HIGGIN...

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...and barbarous nations, when 55 John Locke we remember that it was a familiar and uncondemned practice amongst the Greeks and Romans to expose, with- ... ...aily conversation; and so they become so many distinct complex ideas in their minds. Thus ostrhakismos amongst the Greeks, and proscriptio amongst the... ...ctions: v.g. boldness is the power to speak or do what we intend, before others, without fear or disorder; and the Greeks call the confidence of speak... ... them, must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same language and country. This is so evident in the Greek authors, that he that shall p... ... gift which the illiterate had not attained to. 11. As useful as to confound the sounds that the let- ters of the alphabet stand for. These learned m... ...that which his scarlet would blush at, to have his au- thority of forty years, standing, wrought out of hard rock, Greek and Latin, with no small expe...

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... God although sunk in su perstition and held down by the despotism of the Greek Leo Tolstoy 6 Church. It was the cumbrous ritual and dogma of the or... ...rines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great principles of Jesus: love of God – in a word... ...ve Thyself. ’ And a superscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, ‘This is the King of the Jews.’ And one of th... ...got hold of the Gospel, but he could not read. He had started to learn the alphabet in his boyhood, but could not grasp the joining of the syllables, ...

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.... What are you about, dragging the very cross [those baptized in the Russo-Greek Church always wear a cross round their necks] off my neck,” said an a... ...nd in this way condemned the explanations given by the Church. Blaming the Greek orthodox religion in the presence of the common people means, accordi... ...y of the real ones. They are all some kind of Germans—Gay, Fay, Day—tout l’alphabet, or else all sorts of Ivanoffs, Simenoffs, Nikitines, or else Ivan... ...ving together with the saucer over a paper that had all the letters of the alphabet written on it. The saucer was answering the questions put by the G... ...ng with an abbess, a lively and aris- tocratic lady, who was spreading the Greek orthodox faith in Western Russia among the Uniates (who acknowledge t... ...sia among the Uniates (who acknowledge the Pope of Rome), and who have the Greek religion en- forced on them. An official who was in the reception- ro... ...m them before. The case was this: These Chris- tians, fallen away from the Greek Orthodox Church, were first exhorted and then tried by law, but were ...

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...as he raved of swimming holes and coon hunts and wa termelon raids. It was as Greek to Ruth, but the Kid understood and felt, — felt as only one can ... ...If you go down stream, you ’ll fall in with the Russians. There ’s bound to be Greek priests among them, and they ’ll see you safe through to Bering S... ...e was tougher ’n rawhide, but weak. And he did n’t know the first letter in the alphabet of boxing. Prayne chopped him to ribbons. But he hung on for t...

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...was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his ignorance of Greek. But every page of his writings proves a wide and diversified knowled... ...er, each doing his best to render Homer, but none of them is the grand old Greek, whose lines are all simple and plain as brands, but like brands poin... ...s to Art. Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’... ...bours of those who have improved our language with the translations of old Greek and Latin authors.—We have already most of their histori- ans in our ... ...had, namely, that of epic poem; with a title also framed after the ancient Greek manner, to wit, that of Dunciad. Wonderful it is that so few of the m... ...thor of something yet more great than letter; 400 While towering o’er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our digamma, 401 and o’ertops them all. ‘’Tis ...

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...ugh the ageing and whitening of the realistically coloured statuary of the Greeks and Romans. Much of the charm of the old furniture and needlework, a... ...n exception or so, it does not signify at all. He would set almost all the Greek and Roman literature in well-printed translations and with luminous i... ...In- dividualist soul. The hands are the hands of Plato, the wide- thinking Greek, but the voice is the voice of a humane, pub- lic-spirited, but limit... ... find myself forced to depreciate these modern idols, and to reinstate the Greek social phi- losophers in their vacant niches, to ask you rather to go... ...s style in these latter things, his extensive unilluminated knowl- edge of Greek and Latin, and his greater costliness, that he differs from a young c... ..., a constituency in which candidates represented by all the letters of the alphabet struggle for twelve places. And let us suppose that A, B, C and D ...

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...rms and Christmas carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things were the Alphabet, whereby in aftertime he was to syllable and partly read the gra... ...and partly read the grand V olume of the World: what matters it whether such Alphabet be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt ones, so you have an... ...quite sickly, and disproportioned to its breadth? We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “mechanically” taught; He brew scarce even mechanic... ...t is not mad? Nevertheless, one may still murmur audibly, or in the original Greek if that suit thee better: ‘Whoso can look on Death will start at no... ...was trifling.” Thou foolish Teufelsdr¨ ockh How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and no... ...erto in all other lands; still as of old, ‘what devilry soever Kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper!’—In that fiction of the English Smollett, it is... ...t that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee,... ...and Writer is God. To read it! Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof? With its Words, Sentences, and grand descriptive Pages,...

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...d mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invari- ably the better for beating—but, poor woman!... ...isagreed with the Chinese, who held that the soul lies in the abdomen. The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words fo... ...in pure good humor, on a fork. But they want flavor, these Romans. One fat Greek is worth a dozen of them, and besides will keep, which cannot be said... ...ery few poets in the language. While the clas- sic tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by power of ac- cent, several advantages for versification ... ...ake, To me a painted paroquet Hath been—a most familiar bird— Taught me my alphabet to say— To lisp my very earliest word While in the wild wood I did... ...o’ it perish With a thought I then did cherish. 1827. Translation from the Greek HYMN TO ARISTOGE1TON AND HARMODIUS I Wreathed in myrtle, my swo...

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...ongues, admits rhyme, but with reluctance, and prefers alliteration. Their alphabet con sists of but nineteen letters, and of these, b, c, d, f, g, a... ... evil on the mountains, and is therefore termed, “The Thunderer,” like the Greek Zeus, and his abode is called, “The Thunder Home.” Ukko is often repr... ...n our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer [Achilles?]; but if the poet may tak... ... “darksome Laplanders”, just as the Iliad relates the contests between the Greeks and the Trojans. Castren is of the opinion that the enmity be tween... ... an infant; often too the unexpected is introduced after the manner of the Greek dramas, by a young child, or an old man. The whole poem is replete wi...

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...e had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or 21 George Eliot Latin phrase he always gave the English with scru... ...time of court- 57 George Eliot ship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without unde... ...life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little readin... ...h zeal for the glory? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary— at least the alphabet and a few roots—in order to arrive at the core of things, and judg... ...ies have a touching fitness. Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. But Dorothea herself was a little shocke... ..., and the answers she got to some timid ques- tions about the value of the Greek accents gave her a painful suspicion that here indeed there might be ... ...pictures and nature which I am too ignorant to feel—just as you see what a Greek sentence stands for which means nothing to me.” Dorothea looked up at...

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...e had not two styles of talking at command: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, bu... ...ning, early in the time of courtship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s daughters did to their father, without unde... ...life. Certainly it might be a great advantage if you were able to copy the Greek character, and to that end it were well to begin with a little readin... ...th zeal for the glory? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary—at least the alphabet and a few roots—in order to arrive at the core of things, and judg... ...ties have a touching fitness. Few scholars would have disliked teaching the alphabet under such circumstances. But Dorothea her self was a little shoc... ...ty, and the answers she got to some timid questions about the value of the Greek accents gave her a painful suspicion that here indeed there might be ... ...pictures and nature which I am too ignorant to feel—just as you see what a Greek sentence stands for which means nothing to me.” Dorothea looked up at...

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...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ...most every time that, pointer in hand, she sat down to show him the French alphabet, she so longed to pour her own knowledge quickly and easily into t... ... and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. The French alphabet, written out with the same nu- merical values as the Hebrew, in wh... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...