A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names: In which the Words are Accented and Divided Into Syllables Exactly as They Ought to be Pronounced, According to Rules Drawn from Analogy and the Best Usuage to which are Added Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latin Proper Names, in which the Words are Arranged According to Their Final Syllables, and Classed According to Their Accents; by which the General Analogy of Pronunciation May be Seen at One View, and the Accentuation of Each Word More Easily Remembered. Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accents and Quantity; with Some Probable Conjectures on the Method of Freeing Them from Obscurity and Confusion in which They are Involved, Both by the Ancients and ModernsCollins and Hannay, 1823 - 103 Seiten |
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... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. who form the most important part of it , are without these advantages , and therefore want such a guide to direct them as is here offered . Even polite and literary people , who speak only ...
... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. who form the most important part of it , are without these advantages , and therefore want such a guide to direct them as is here offered . Even polite and literary people , who speak only ...
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... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. The tendency of compounds to contract the sound of the simple Secondary ... Latin , exem- plified by an enumeration of most of the dissyllables in our language derived from the Latin and Greek ...
... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. The tendency of compounds to contract the sound of the simple Secondary ... Latin , exem- plified by an enumeration of most of the dissyllables in our language derived from the Latin and Greek ...
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... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. 108. When this letter is succeeded by r , and another consonant not in ... Latin preserve the Latin accent . ( 503 , b . ) But if the English ear were unbiassed by the long i in Latin , which ...
... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. 108. When this letter is succeeded by r , and another consonant not in ... Latin preserve the Latin accent . ( 503 , b . ) But if the English ear were unbiassed by the long i in Latin , which ...
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... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. I have classed vicinal here as a word with the accent on the second syllable , as it stands in Sheri- dan's Dictionary , but think it ought to have the accent on the first . See MEDICINAL ...
... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. I have classed vicinal here as a word with the accent on the second syllable , as it stands in Sheri- dan's Dictionary , but think it ought to have the accent on the first . See MEDICINAL ...
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... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. not have required t to form their preterits , any more than peeped , and steeped ; but custom , which has shortened the diphthong in the former words , very naturally annexed i as the ...
... Latin Proper Names, in which the John Walker. not have required t to form their preterits , any more than peeped , and steeped ; but custom , which has shortened the diphthong in the former words , very naturally annexed i as the ...
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adjective agreeable analogy anglicised animal antepenultimate båll Belonging bird body Buchanan called chyle colour compounds consonant contrary corrupt costiveness derived Dictionary diphthong distinct DOMESTICK enclitical English Entick fåll får fåt favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard herb horse instrument Johnson Kenrick kind language last syllable Latin language letter liquor manner mark marriage Mason mean ment mêt pine mind motion môve mute når Nares nature neral ness nỏ noise nôt noun nounced observed Obsolete orthography participle penultimate Perry person place the accent plant plural Preter preterit pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity Relating rhyme rule Scott second syllable secondary accent seems sharp Sheridan ship short sound shortening signifies speakers species spelling tåb termination thin thing tion triphthong unaccented v. a. To put verb vessel violence vowel vulgar written
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Seite 70 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 248 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Seite 179 - The Ember days at the four Seasons, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Pentecost, September 14, and December 13. " 3d. The three Rogation days, being the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday, or the Ascension of our Lord. " 4th. All the Fridays in the year, except Christmas-day.
Seite 344 - Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple : " The first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humour, and the fourth for mine enemies.
Seite 57 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn : Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Seite 50 - But if this letter is too forcibly pronounced in Ireland, it is often too feebly sounded in England, and particularly in London, where it is sometimes entirely sunk...
Seite 32 - ... vowels. When vowels are under the accent, the prince and the lowest of the people, with very few exceptions, pronounce them in the same manner ; but the unaccented vowels, in the mouth of the former, have a distinct, open, and specific sound, while the latter often totally sink them, or change them into some other sound.
Seite 62 - ... they exist, have, in the framing their abstract ideas, chiefly pursued that end which was to be furnished with store of general and variously comprehensive names. So that in this whole business of genera and species, the genus, or more comprehensive, is but a partial conception of what is in...
Seite 354 - To put out of one place into another, to put in motion ; to give an impulse to ; to propose, to recommend ; to persuade ; to prevail on the mind ; to affect, to touch pathetically, to stir passion ; to make angry : to conduct regularly in motion.
Seite 252 - To touch, to feel with the hand ; to manage, to wield, to make familiar to the hand by frequent touching; to...