"The note and speech prove that they have not yet learned the alphabet of respect for the rights of others.

Master McCosh knows the face of the sky as well as I know the alphabet.

In three months the children had been reduced to some sort of order, taught the alphabet and the way to sew; they could repeat a few texts, and sing a few hymns with some approach to sweetness.

They had invented a peculiar phonetic alphabet; and their religion consisted in the belief in good and evil spirits and witches, in circumcision, and in somewhat of divination by the stars.

This little volume will commend itself to parents, as a book for children who have just mastered the alphabet.

The long and short of it is, that whoever can mark distinctions of time can use this alphabet of long-and-short, however he may mark them.

A larger number may be called well educatedthese reside mostly in the cities and large villages, but a majority of the slaveholders are ignorant men, thousands of them notoriously so, mere boors unable to write their names or to read the alphabet.

"It is an ugly old letter, and I ain't ever going to try to say it again," said Willy, repeating the alphabet very rapidly from beginning to end, without the G. Like a wise mother, she did not open at once on a struggle; but said, pleasantly, "Ah! you did not get it in that time.

Looking over the expanse of the ages, we think more earnestly and lovingly of Cadmus, who gave us the alphabet; of Archimedes, who invented the lever; of Euclid, with his demonstrations in geometry; of Faust, who taught us how to print; of Watt, with his development of steam, than of the resonant orators who inflamed the passions of mankind, and the gallant chieftains who led mankind to war.

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I studied these words over and over, much as children of a couple of generations ago studied the alphabet.

It takes the alphabet and the early pothooks, and the boy by and by combines them into literature.

I cannot recall to mind anything that should have first caused me to associate colours with letters, nor can my mother remember any alphabet or reading-book coloured in the way I have described, which I might have used as a child.

He was delighted, and picked the alphabet, here and there, from a page chosen at random in the big book.

Cadmus carried the Phoenician alphabet into Greece, where it was subsequently altered and enlarged.

I believe both these sciences now precede the old English alphabet.

I have suggested the propriety of introducing this alphabet into the primary schools.

We cannot determine whether the Medes and Persians brought their alphabet from their original settlements in Central Asia, or derived it from the Turanian and Semitic nations with which they came in contact.

He had reduced the alphabet to eleven primitive sounds; and tried to teach me his method, but I could not understand.

I wrote down the alphabet, and put V opposite E, and T opposite G, and S opposite H. I stared at it and stared at it, and all of a suddenI don't know how I came to think of itI noticed that E is the fifth letter from the beginning of the alphabet, and V is the fifth letter from the end.

The fact did not then appear to me to be of any great importance, seeming to be more curious than useful, yet, in reflecting upon it, it seemed desirable to secure this result by specifying it in my letters patent, lest it might be used as an evasion in indicating my novel alphabet without recording it.

HORNBOOK, was a sheet of vellum or paper used in early times for teaching the rudiments of education, on which were inscribed the alphabet in black or Roman letters, some monosyllables, the Lord's Prayer, and the Roman numerals; this sheet was covered with a slice of transparent horn, and was still in use in George II.'s reign.

" Phil rummaged again, and brought to light an alphabet which she had made for herself in her early Braille days.

It was not till 1828 that all distinctions were abolished in the Boston Common Schools; in the High Schools lingering far later, sole vestige of the "good old times," before a mistaken economy overthrew the wholesome doctrine of M. Sylvain Maréchal, and let loose the alphabet among women.

He devised and perfected the dot-and-dash alphabet.