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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... seems to have a great superiority over the French , which pronounces many letters in the poetic and solemn style , that are wholly silent in the prosaic and familiar . But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our ...
... seems to have a great superiority over the French , which pronounces many letters in the poetic and solemn style , that are wholly silent in the prosaic and familiar . But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our ...
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... seem sounded by them as if written dr - rim , fa - n ; while the English sound the r so soft and so close to them , that it seems pro- nounced nearly as if written stawm , faam . Nearly the same observations are applicable to lm . When ...
... seem sounded by them as if written dr - rim , fa - n ; while the English sound the r so soft and so close to them , that it seems pro- nounced nearly as if written stawm , faam . Nearly the same observations are applicable to lm . When ...
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... seem , those at a considerable distance from the capital do not only mispronounce many words taken separately , but they ... seems to be i , which , though demonstrably composed of twe - sounds , has passed for a simple vowel with a very ...
... seem , those at a considerable distance from the capital do not only mispronounce many words taken separately , but they ... seems to be i , which , though demonstrably composed of twe - sounds , has passed for a simple vowel with a very ...
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... seems the privi- ge only of a ; for the other vowels contract before the consonants ng in revenge , cringe , plunge ; and the ste in our language is preceded by no other vowel but this . Every consonant but n shortens every vowel but a ...
... seems the privi- ge only of a ; for the other vowels contract before the consonants ng in revenge , cringe , plunge ; and the ste in our language is preceded by no other vowel but this . Every consonant but n shortens every vowel but a ...
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... seems to lengthen the sound of this letter , so the bbreviation of some words by apostrophe seems to have the same effect . Thus when , by impa bence , that grand corrupter of manners , as well as language , the no is cut out of the ...
... seems to lengthen the sound of this letter , so the bbreviation of some words by apostrophe seems to have the same effect . Thus when , by impa bence , that grand corrupter of manners , as well as language , the no is cut out of the ...
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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...