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For him the native songs were Arabic music, as was also the alphabet of the ancient Filipinos he was certain of this, although he did not know Arabic nor had he ever seen that alphabet. "Arabic, the purest Arabic," he said to Ben-Zayb in a tone that admitted no reply. "At best, Chinese!"
At the same time he retains the visual image of the letter. This process forms the first preparation, not only for writing, but also for reading, because it is evident that when the child touches the letters he performs the movement corresponding to the writing of them, and, at the same time, when he recognizes them by sight he is reading the alphabet.
To these add X, granules, of indeterminate shape and size, Y, for inorganic matters, such as the salts of bone and teeth, and Z, to stand as a symbol of the fluids, and you have the letters of what I have ventured to call the alphabet of the body.
Whereupon she put the question: 'Will the spirits converse with this gentleman? At all events, thought I, the term 'gentleman' applies to the next world, which is a comfort. She listened for the answer. Presently three distinct raps on the table signified assent. She then took from her reticule a card whereon were printed the alphabet, and numerals up to 10.
To rise above contestants, one must be patient, resigned, long toiling and abhorrent of the social ties which fetter one when most of the time is demanded to solve a problem, and pester one to recite the two or three letters he has learnt when he ought to study till he masters the entire alphabet. A man must immolate himself.
I turned out this sample of my ability as an engineer workman in such a style as even now I should be proud to own. In like manner I executed several specimens of my ability as a mechanical draughtsman; for I knew that Maudslay would thoroughly understand my ability to work after a plan. Mechanical drawing is the alphabet of the engineer. Without this the workman is merely a "hand."
And if you do not know and feel that that is you, then you have not learned the first letters of the alphabet which are necessary to spell 'salvation. You, I, every man, we are all sick unto death, because the poison of self-will and sin is running hot through all our veins, and we are all in deadly peril because of that poison-peril of death, peril arising from the weight of guilt that presses upon us, peril from our inevitable collision with the Divine law and government which make for righteousness.
'Look here! taking something out. 'Scraps of the Russian Prince's nails. Prince Alphabet turned topsy-turvy, I call him, for his name's got all the letters in it, higgledy-piggledy. 'The Russian Prince is a client of yours, is he? said Steerforth. 'I believe you, my pet, replied Miss Mowcher. 'I keep his nails in order for him. Twice a week! Fingers and toes.
Blyth repeated, by means of the deaf-and-dumb alphabet, the instructions which she had just given to the servant; and added observing the paleness and agitation of Madonna's face "Let us not frighten ourselves unnecessarily, my dear, about Zack; he may turn out to be much better than we think him from reading his letter."
Goodnight and Loving both read it as easily as if it had been print, the abandoned camps, the course of arrival and departure, the number of horses, indicating who and what they were, war or hunting parties everything apparently simple and plain as an alphabet to these plainsmen.
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