Hebrew Letters

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    Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
    —Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 8:3.

    Jesus recalls these words in Matthew 4:4.

    There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)