Elements of Orthoepy: Containing a Distinct View of the Whole Analogy of the English Language; So Far as it Relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and Quantity |
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... fuch an effort to fix what we thus delineate , there might indeed be reason to exult . The mutability of hu- man speech has been perceived and la- mented by every nation that has had a language worth improving , or one so far improved ...
... fuch an effort to fix what we thus delineate , there might indeed be reason to exult . The mutability of hu- man speech has been perceived and la- mented by every nation that has had a language worth improving , or one so far improved ...
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... fuch principles has been made to the inftruction of per- fons naturally deaf . But we fpeak not here of what a careful teacher , by perfonal attendance and great and various efforts , can perform , but of what may be effected by a ...
... fuch principles has been made to the inftruction of per- fons naturally deaf . But we fpeak not here of what a careful teacher , by perfonal attendance and great and various efforts , can perform , but of what may be effected by a ...
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... fuch definitions have in them more ob- fcurity than utility . Those who doubt this may per- haps find it more difficult than they would expect , to apply the following definitions to the letters for which they were defigned , without ...
... fuch definitions have in them more ob- fcurity than utility . Those who doubt this may per- haps find it more difficult than they would expect , to apply the following definitions to the letters for which they were defigned , without ...
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... fuch a compofition in it , and it seems to me a found altogether as fimple as that of a or e , I have reject- ed the notion and I have in general avoided fubtilties of this nature , finding from experience that they perplex rather than ...
... fuch a compofition in it , and it seems to me a found altogether as fimple as that of a or e , I have reject- ed the notion and I have in general avoided fubtilties of this nature , finding from experience that they perplex rather than ...
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... fuch confiderations ; thus , words in -sk , ask , bask , cask , flask , mask ; words in -fs , ass , brass , class , glass , & c . & c . But the whole number of words is fo inconfiderable , that claffification feemed unneceffary , § 2 ...
... fuch confiderations ; thus , words in -sk , ask , bask , cask , flask , mask ; words in -fs , ass , brass , class , glass , & c . & c . But the whole number of words is fo inconfiderable , that claffification feemed unneceffary , § 2 ...
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