At first only letters should be sent until the men have learned the alphabet thoroughly.
The alphabet should be learned first according to the same general plan as in the semaphore; i.
After the men have studied the alphabet sufficiently, have them send to each other, limiting the work at first to letters only.
By fixing firmly in mind a few things the student can soon reason out the alphabet for himself by a very logical plan.
After the men have been taught the alphabet they should either pair off and one man send to the other, or one man should be selected to send for the entire class.
The alphabet can be found in any standard signal book, or in the "Manual for Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates.
This plan of teaching the semaphore will be found very helpful, for it helps to reason out the alphabet for the student.
In this way the key characters of the alphabet can be fixed in mind, as well as their relation to the other letters.
It has not yet operated very visibly in the Old World, where, even in England, the majority of women have not till lately mastered the alphabet sufficiently to sign their own names in the marriage register.
Every man for himself, every woman for herself, and the alphabet for us all.
Therefore she did not merely carry to the Crimea a woman's heart, as her stock in trade, but she knew the alphabet of her profession better than the men around her.
The origin of the Hindu Alphabet and the native system of Dates have to do with the originality of parts of Hindu literature, but these outlying subjects, which have a literature of their own, we can only touch upon.
A good résumé of the discussion in regard to the alphabet will be found in JRAS.
The remainder of this month, I was continually engaged in translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham, and arranging a grammar of the Egyptian language as practiced by the ancients.
Exhibited the alphabet of the ancient records, to Mr. Holmes, and some others.
Chips was shocked to find his friend so unversed in the very alphabet of cricket, and began coaching him out of Lillywhite without delay.
Why, I've never even done a page of Xenophon, and I'm not sure that I could say the Greek alphabet to save my life!
B was prefixed, and so on; and astronomers began to fear that they had before them a monotonous prospect of continually adding new planets, varied by no incident more exciting than starting the alphabet over again after every score.
Already the type-and-rule and all the symbols and dictionaries had been discarded, and the dot-and-dash alphabet was substituted.
The wonderful alphabet of the telegraph, the most valuable of the separate inventions that make up the system, was not his conception.
The Vail telegraphic alphabet had not been thought of.
I picked up an acquaintance of the same turn, and soon learned to draw the alphabet with great correctness.
For Telegraph Alphabet and complete directions for home-made keys, sounders, etc.
In the same letter he refers to the Opium habit--and to the initiatory steps toward the formation of a Romanized alphabet for the Amoy Vernacular.
I can only say that I have convinced myself and proved to the astonishment of many that a dog can recognize both the letters of the alphabet and the subject of a picture shown to it.
Lola now practised her alphabetin the morning and in the afternoon we continued multiplications; rather more slowly than at first, but we ultimately reached a hundred.
Whenever she seemed in doubt over some letter I had recourse to her alphabet card, and made her look it up herself.
I suppose the entire alphabet at one dose had been too much for her!
As soon as she had mastered the entire alphabet I proceeded to contract the letters into words.
Then I began to tell Lola some four or five letters of her alphabet daily, questioning her as to each.
At length his alphabet came into being--he having, with the exception of one or two letters, put it together entirely by himself.
He could not even remember an alphabet he had himself put together, and one I invented for him he only memorized after going over it many times.
As has already been pointed out, the alphabet fits the language very badly.
Hamilton A primer of information about the invention of the alphabetand the history of bookmaking up to the invention of movable types.
Second, the English language uses analphabet which fits it very badly.
How many letters are there in the English alphabet and how many sounds do they express?
Then said I: 'Theckla, thou learnest the alphabetby faith only.
The first letter is a double m, a letter which is not to be found in Turlleson's book, and which was only added to thealphabet in the fourteenth century.
Now I will dictate to you every letter of our alphabetwhich corresponds with each of these Icelandic characters.
The first half of thealphabet was represented by single lights, the second half by pairs.
Kaou-ah" meant great, or large, and Cartier finally set down the rest of the word as Canada, as nearly as the French alphabet could spell out the gutturals.
Alphabet was too hard for you, Lubin, my boy, though he is such a mite of a man.
But poor Lubin soon found to his cost that Alphabet was strong as well as little, and quite able to hold his own against any amount of pushing.
Alphabet took the bright hours with a merry grin, as he swung back the iron grating; but when Lubin was about to pass in, the dwarf planted himself in the way.
Seeing that there was no use in refusing, as Alphabet had the key of the gate, each of the children now produced some money, Dick giving less than the others.
As the children passed Mr. Reading's fine shop, little Alphabet peeped through the grating, to the no small annoyance of Lubin.
And, in the same way, a person who is stuffing down the Alphabet of Astrology cannot be expected to intuit anything concerning the potential of the Sun's direction to the quadrature of Saturn.
The school-house is still standing in Huntingdon, in good condition and busy occupation, in which Oliver Cromwell stormed the English alphabet and carried the first parallel of monosyllables at the point of the pen.
Wilt thou not teach all his children to read the alphabet and the blessed syllables of the Great Revelation of God's Love to man?
They not only carried a new liturgical form to Bulgaria but also devised a new alphabet known as Cyrillic.
This new alphabetsoon replaced Latin and Greek as the only form of writing, and on its base a new Slavic literature and culture grew up.
At first the alphabet was used to translate the Bible and other Christian religious texts, but in the Golden Age of the First Bulgarian Kingdom several original religious and secular tests were written by Bulgarians in their own language.
