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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844. Excerpt: ... meaning, between io and is, when we examine these two words as we find them in &udio and audw. It is evident that they are here radically the same, and that they differ only in form, in order to distinguish one person from another. And in English, what other difference can we discover between is and be in such an instance as "if he is" and "if he be?" Hence we must be led to look minutely at the B, and consequently to discover that it is oomposed of these two parts, I3, of which the latter is still composed of these two, which, when thus placed, make, by being allowed to join, the letter S; so that when we put an I before it, we have IS, by which we see that B and IS make but one word. If, in like manner, we take these parts of the S (') and place them thus, 0, or thus, 0, so as to allow them to meet, we shall have, by doing so, an 0, and consequently I0, B, and IS, make but one word, that is, they may all three be, io, io, io, or b, b, b, or is, is, is. Now as io, like u, h, and v, is composed of two characters, each meaning one, so are b and is, since they are equal to io, composed of two characters, each meaning one. Then Beta, Eta, Zeta, Theta, and Iota, have been justly defined by the wisdom of ancient times; and now we can see why such words as io, be, and is, are in meaning all alike, though different in form. I consider it still necessary to repeat, in a few words, how the Beta, Eta, Zeta, Theta, and Iota, agree with one another, and the definitions given of them. Bvjra. The definition of this word implies that Btjtoc is the same as Hra, which is true, since the former is equal to be vita (the being or the thing life), and the latter to vita, that is, vita, "the life," or "life it is." The character B is also equal to the character H, from its be...
