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 xi
The author of the Essay upon the Harmony of Language gives us a detail of the particulars by which this accusation is proved : and this is so true a picture of the English pronunciation of Latin , that I shall quote it at length , as it ...
The author of the Essay upon the Harmony of Language gives us a detail of the particulars by which this accusation is proved : and this is so true a picture of the English pronunciation of Latin , that I shall quote it at length , as it ...
Page xii
Whatever , therefore , they may want of expressing the true harmony of the Latin language , they certainly avoid the most glaring and absurd faults in our manner of pronouncing it . It is a matter of curiosity to observe with what ...
Whatever , therefore , they may want of expressing the true harmony of the Latin language , they certainly avoid the most glaring and absurd faults in our manner of pronouncing it . It is a matter of curiosity to observe with what ...
Page xiii
66 66 SS 66 66 mirábile , frigidus ; except the vowel of the penultimate be followed by a vowel , and then the vowel of the antepenulti . mate is with as little regard to true quantity pronounced long , as in maneo , redeat , odium ...
66 66 SS 66 66 mirábile , frigidus ; except the vowel of the penultimate be followed by a vowel , and then the vowel of the antepenulti . mate is with as little regard to true quantity pronounced long , as in maneo , redeat , odium ...
Page xiv
To preserve , then , in our pronunciation , the true harmony of the language , we have only to take care to give the vowels a long sound or a short sound , as the quantity may require ; and , when doubled consonants ' occur ...
To preserve , then , in our pronunciation , the true harmony of the language , we have only to take care to give the vowels a long sound or a short sound , as the quantity may require ; and , when doubled consonants ' occur ...
Page xx
It is true this is the sound the Romans gave to ibeir i ; but the speakers here alluded to are perfectly innocent of this , and do not pronounce it in this manner for its antiquity , but its novelty . + See Elegeia , Hygeia , & c . in ...
It is true this is the sound the Romans gave to ibeir i ; but the speakers here alluded to are perfectly innocent of this , and do not pronounce it in this manner for its antiquity , but its novelty . + See Elegeia , Hygeia , & c . in ...
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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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