[64] Alexander von Humboldt.
[65] The passages thus indicated were marked by Schlegel himself for revision.
[66] Shakspeare. Hamlet, Act i., Scene v.
[67] Philosophy of Life, p. 113.
[68] St. James, c. ii., v. 5.
[69] In the original the three terms are—Gewissen, Wissen, and Gewissheit.
[70] The three primary vowels, according to Bopp and Grimm, are a, i, u, e and o being dipthongal compounds of ai and ao respectively. The former appears from a comparison between the Greek σφαιρα, Latin sphæra, and our sphere; or, again, from Μουσαι, Musæ, pronounced by us Musā; or from the Ionic form ης, of dat. plur. αις. To prove that au gives o, it will be sufficient from many instances to give one:—the Latin pauci, in the Spanish and Italian dialects of the Romance is poco.
The simple alphabet of ten elementary sounds may stand thus:—
| Three vowels | a, i, u. |
| Three consonants | p, t, k, or b, d, g in the mediate form, given as by Schlegel. |
| Three liquids | l, n, r. |
| Sibilant | s.—Trans. |
[71] On the Hebrew alphabet, see Latham’s “The English Language,” p. 184.—Trans.