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 Usage : to which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek and Latiln 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 Earily Remembered : Concluding with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity : with Some Probable Conjectures on the Method of Freeing Them from the Obscurity and Confusion in which They are Involved, Both by the Ancients and Moderns ...authors, 1804 - 285 páginas |
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Página iii
... seems to be imperfect with- out them . Polite scholars , indeed , are seldom at a loss for the pronunciation of words they so frequently meet with in the learned languages ; but there are great numbers of respectable English scholars ...
... seems to be imperfect with- out them . Polite scholars , indeed , are seldom at a loss for the pronunciation of words they so frequently meet with in the learned languages ; but there are great numbers of respectable English scholars ...
Página iv
... seem to demand some work on this subject more perfect than any we have hitherto seen . I could have wished it had been undertaken by a person of more learning and leisure than myself ; but we often wait in vain for works of this kind ...
... seem to demand some work on this subject more perfect than any we have hitherto seen . I could have wished it had been undertaken by a person of more learning and leisure than myself ; but we often wait in vain for works of this kind ...
Página v
... seem more related to each other by their terminations than by their beginnings ; that the Greek and Latin languages seem more particu- larly to be thus related ; and classing them accord- ing to their endings , seemed to exhibit a new ...
... seem more related to each other by their terminations than by their beginnings ; that the Greek and Latin languages seem more particu- larly to be thus related ; and classing them accord- ing to their endings , seemed to exhibit a new ...
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... seems to depart more from what we can gather of the ancient pronunciation than either the Italian , French , or German * . For why the English should pay a compliment to the learned Hinc factum est ut tanta in pronunciando varietas ...
... seems to depart more from what we can gather of the ancient pronunciation than either the Italian , French , or German * . For why the English should pay a compliment to the learned Hinc factum est ut tanta in pronunciando varietas ...
Página xiv
... seems much inferior to our own . I am aware of the power of habit , and of its being able , on many occasions , to ... seems to be no necessity for pronouncing the two consonants distinctly or separately , which he seems to mean by ...
... seems much inferior to our own . I am aware of the power of habit , and of its being able , on many occasions , to ... seems to be no necessity for pronouncing the two consonants distinctly or separately , which he seems to mean by ...
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accent and quantity Accent the Antepenultimate Accent the Penultimate accent this word accented syllable acute accent adjective adopted Ainsworth analogy ancients anglicised antepenultimate accent antepenultimate syllable chus ci-a circumflex consonants COOKE's Hesiod Critical Pronouncing Dictionary diphthong ending a syllable English pronunciation English words Forster Gouldman grave accent Greek and Latin Greek language Greek or Latin Greek word Hebrew Hesiod Holyoke human voice Idomeneus inflexion Initial Vocabulary Iphigenia Iphimedia Kir'jath Labbe last syllable LATIN ACCENT Latin languages Latin Proper Names Latin words learned Lempriere letters long quantity loud louder Milton Nemuel noun eye nounced observed penultimate accent penultimate syllable phis pi-a place the accent preceding prefixed pronun pronunciation pronunciation of Greek prosodists prosody Rule says Scotch second syllable she-a si-a singing soft speaking sounds suppose syllable Terminational Vocabulary Theog three syllables ti-a tone unaccented syllable verse vowel written
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