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 ... |
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Page vii
The English pronunciation of Greek and Latin injurious to quantity xi No sufficient reason for altering the present pronunciation on these accounts xiii Puule for accenting Latin words xiv Rule for accenting Greek proper names ...
The English pronunciation of Greek and Latin injurious to quantity xi No sufficient reason for altering the present pronunciation on these accounts xiii Puule for accenting Latin words xiv Rule for accenting Greek proper names ...
Page xiii
... We have reason to suppose , ” says he , usual accentuation of Latin , however it may want of many elegancies in the pronunciation of the Augustan age , is yet sufficiently just to give with tolerable accuracy that part of the that ...
... We have reason to suppose , ” says he , usual accentuation of Latin , however it may want of many elegancies in the pronunciation of the Augustan age , is yet sufficiently just to give with tolerable accuracy that part of the that ...
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I am aware of the power of habit , and of its being able , on many occasions , to make the worse appear the better reason ; but if the harmony of the Latin language depended so much on a preservation of the quantity as many pretend ...
I am aware of the power of habit , and of its being able , on many occasions , to make the worse appear the better reason ; but if the harmony of the Latin language depended so much on a preservation of the quantity as many pretend ...
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When reasons lie deep in Greek and Latin etymology , the current pronunciation will be followed , let the learned do all they can to hinder it : thus , after Hyperion has been accented by our best poets according to our own analogy with ...
When reasons lie deep in Greek and Latin etymology , the current pronunciation will be followed , let the learned do all they can to hinder it : thus , after Hyperion has been accented by our best poets according to our own analogy with ...
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This , among other reasons , makes it probable that the Brecks and Romans pronounced the a as we do in water , and the e as we hear it E'gus Æ'gy ( 6 ) Æ'mon Æ - ac'i - B2 in ÁC ...
This , among other reasons , makes it probable that the Brecks and Romans pronounced the a as we do in water , and the e as we hear it E'gus Æ'gy ( 6 ) Æ'mon Æ - ac'i - B2 in ÁC ...
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | John Walker |
| Publisher | authors, 1804 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 15 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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