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9th letter of the basic Latin alphabet

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  1. Thus alphabetic writing retains at the same time the advantage of vocal language, that the ideas have names strictly so called: the name is the simple sign for the exact idea, i.e. the simple plain idea, not decomposed into its features and compounded out of them. Hieroglyphics, instead of springing from the direct analysis of sensible signs, like alphabetic writing, arise from an antecedent analysis of ideas.

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

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  2. Hermeas saying that he approved both reasons, why then (continued I) do not you explain the proportion, if there be any, of the number of the letters; for, in my opinion, there is; and I think so, because the number of mutes and semi-vowels, compared between themselves or with the vowels, doth not seem casual and undesigned, but to be according to the first proportion which you call arithmetical. For their number…

    Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3

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  3. 290. Priest of Hercules, iii. 90. Prometheus, i. 289. Ptolemy Lagus, i. 45. Pythagoras, ii. 174. Roman Senator and his wife, iv. 233-235. Scaurus, i. 295. Scilurus, a Scythian king, iv. 244. Seleucus Callinicus, iv. 237. Seneca, i. 53. Simonides, v. 68. Socrates, i. 11, 13, 23, 26, 38, 53, 141, 150. Socrates and Plato, ii. 148. Solon, v. 89. Solon and Croesus, ii. 122. Sophocles, v. 68. Stasicrates, i. 495. Stilpo…

    Plutarch, Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1

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  4. 93. From Pactyïke and the Armenians and the people bordering upon them as far as the Euxine, four hundred talents: this is the thirteenth division. From the Sagartians and Sarangians and Thamanaians and Utians and Mycans and those who dwell in the islands of the Erythraian Sea, where the king settles those who are called the "Removed," 80 from all these together a tribute was produced of six hundred talents: this is…

    Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 1

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  5. _Anne._ I may not go in without your worship: they will not sit till you come. _Slen._ I’ faith, I’ll eat nothing; I thank you as much as though I did. 255 _Anne._ I pray you, sir, walk in. _Slen._ I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot 260…

    William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

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