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adjective agreeable analogy anglicised animal antepenultimate båll Belonging body Buchanan called chyle colour compound consonant contrary corrupt costiveness degree derived Dictionary diphthong Domestick dress enclitical English Entick fåll 83 får fắt Fåte 73 favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard herb horse irregular Johnson Kenrick kind language last syllable Latin Latin language letter liquor long sound Lumbago manner mark mean ment met 95-pine mind motion mỏve mute Nares nature ness noise nốt noun nounced nunciation observed Obsolete orthography penultimate Perry person place the accent plant plural pret preter preterit pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity racter Relating rhyme rule Scott second syllable secondary accent seems sharp Sheridan ship short sound shortening signifies spelling tåb termination thing tion triphthong unaccented v. a. To put verb vessel vowel vulgar word written
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الصفحة 272 - Content, or pleasure, but the good and just? Judges and senates have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were never to be sold.
الصفحة 14 - False Eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay : But true expression, like th' unchanging Sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
الصفحة 4 - ... of English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation; one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn. The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain, being made different, in different mouths, by negligence, nnskilfulness, or affectation.
الصفحة 148 - One straight body laid at right angles over another ; the ensign of the Christian religion ; a monument with a cross upon it to excite devotion, such as were anciently set in...
الصفحة 232 - If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
الصفحة 4 - English Grammar have given long tables of words pronounced otherwise than they are written; and seem not sufficiently to have considered, that, of English, as of all living tongues, there is a double pronunciation; one cursory and colloquial, the other regular and solemn.
الصفحة 16 - The rough r is formed by jarring the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth near the fore teeth : tin smooth г it a vibration of the lower part of the tongue, near the root, against the inward region of the palate, near the entrance of the throat. This latter r is that which marks the pronunciation of England, and the former that of Ireland* In England, and particularly in London, the r in lard, bard, card, regard, &c.
الصفحة 214 - The investigation of a mean proportion collected from the extremities of excess and defect : in algebra, an expression of the same quantity in two dissimilar terms, but of equal value : in astronomy, the difference between the time marked by the sun's apparent motion, and that measured by its real or middle motion. EQUATOR, e-kwa'tur. s. (166). A great circle, whose poles are the poles of the •world.
الصفحة 16 - A vowel is a simple sound formed by a continued effusion of the breath, and a certain conformation of the mouth, without any alteration in the position, or any motion of 'the organs of speech, from the moment the vocal sound commences till it ends. A consonant may be defined to be an interruption of the effusion of vocal sound, arising from the application of the organs of speech to each other.
الصفحة 16 - The secondary accent is that stress which we may occasionally place upon another syllable, besides that which has the principal accent ; in order to pronounce every part of the word more distinctly, forcibly, and harmoniously : thus, "Complaisant, caravan," and " violin," have frequently an accent on the first as well as on the last syllable, though a somewhat less forcible one. The same may be observed of "Repartee, referee, privateer, domineer,