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The Author's Father Appointed Speaker for the Ottawas and Chippewas The Only Ottawa Who was Friendly to Education Making Alphabet Acting as School Teacher Moving Disposition of the Ottawas Mode of Traveling Tradition of William Blackbird Being Fed by Angelic Beings in the Wilderness His being Put into Mission School by His Father Studying to be a Priest His Assassination in the City of Rome, Italy, Almost the Day When He was to be Ordained Memorial Poem The Author's Remarks on the Death of His Brother.
The position which they came to occupy, after the Minoan empire of the sea had passed away, as the great carriers and middlemen of the Mediterranean, gave their system a spread and a utility possible to no other system of writing; and so the Phnician alphabet gradually came to take its place as the basis of all subsequent scripts.
AID, mutual, of husband and wife, 176. ALACRITY is one of those moral virtues which have respect to life, and enter into it, 164. ALCOHOL. Wisdom purified may be compared with alcohol, which is a spirit highly rectified, 145. ALPHA, the, and the Omega. Why the Lord is so called, 326. ALPHABET in the spiritual world, each letter of it is significative, 326.
The liberal Russians might have sympathized with the first moderate demand, but when by the last there was an attempt made upon the integrity of Russia, there was but one voice in the empire. So cruel and so vindictive was the punishment of the Poles, by Liberals and Conservatives alike, that Europe at last in 1863 protested. The Polish language and even alphabet were prohibited.
So the master got Melissa's spelling-book and pointed out the first seven letters of the alphabet, and made Chad repeat them three times watching the boy's earnest, wrinkling brow closely and with growing interest.
This instrument of writing was immediately signed by the old and venerable chief, and the whole town. This wise proceeding has worked a wonderful change for the better in their condition. They are now a temperate, orderly, industrious and peaceable people. One of the most wonderful achievements of our age is the invention of the Cherokee alphabet.
Zeno is the church which struck me most: the eternal and all-seeing eye placed over the door; Fortune's wheel too, composed of six figures curiously disposed, and not unlike our man alphabet, two mounting, two sitting, and two tumbling, over against it: on the outside of the wheel this distich,
"The human conscience has fled of late the troublesome domain of conduct for what I should have supposed to be the less congenial field of art: there she may now be said to rage, and with special severity in all that touches dialect, so that in every novel the letters of the alphabet are tortured, and the reader wearied, to commemorate shades of mispronunciation."
Moments of lull there were, when the telegraph called her to the front room, and Billy's young mind shifted to inquiries about the cipher alphabet. And she gained at least an hour teaching him to read various words by the sound. At dinner, too, he was refreshingly silent. But such silences are unsafe, and the weather was still bad. Four o'clock found them much where they had been at eight.
All possible combinations are, undoubtedly, comprehended in that total, which is truely infinite. Now, it is certain that Homer's Iliad is but a combination of letters: therefore Homer's Iliad is comprehended in that infinite collection of combinations of the characters of the alphabet. This being laid down as a principle, a man who will assign art in the Iliad, will argue wrong.
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