A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...: To which are Prefixed Principles of English Pronunciation ... Likewise, Rules to be Observed by the Natives of Scotland, Ireland and London, for Avoiding Their Respective Peculiarities, and Directions to Foreigners, for Acquiring a Knowledge of the Use of this Dictionary ... To which is Annexed a Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, &c |
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... seems to have a great superiority over the French , which pronounces many letters in the poetic and solemn style , that are wholly silent in the prosaic and familiar . But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our ...
... seems to have a great superiority over the French , which pronounces many letters in the poetic and solemn style , that are wholly silent in the prosaic and familiar . But if a solemn and familiar pronunciation really exists in our ...
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... seems an injury to the former ; who , from their very profession , appear to have a natural right to a share , at least , in the legislation of language , if not to an absolute sovereignty . The polished attendants on a throne are as ...
... seems an injury to the former ; who , from their very profession , appear to have a natural right to a share , at least , in the legislation of language , if not to an absolute sovereignty . The polished attendants on a throne are as ...
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... seems to be , which , though demonstrably composed of two successive sounds , has passed for a simple vowel with a very competent judge of English pronuncia- tion . The reason is , these two sounds are pronounced so closely together as ...
... seems to be , which , though demonstrably composed of two successive sounds , has passed for a simple vowel with a very competent judge of English pronuncia- tion . The reason is , these two sounds are pronounced so closely together as ...
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... seems to operate on languages ; which , from the simplicity and pau- city of their principles , and the extent and power of their combinations , prove the goodness , wis- dom , and omnipotence of their origin . 61. This analogical ...
... seems to operate on languages ; which , from the simplicity and pau- city of their principles , and the extent and power of their combinations , prove the goodness , wis- dom , and omnipotence of their origin . 61. This analogical ...
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... seems the privi- ege only of a ; for the other vowels contract before the consonants ng in revenge , cringe , plunge ; and the ste in our language is preceded by no other vowel but this . Every consonant but n shortens every vowel but a ...
... seems the privi- ege only of a ; for the other vowels contract before the consonants ng in revenge , cringe , plunge ; and the ste in our language is preceded by no other vowel but this . Every consonant but n shortens every vowel but a ...
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adjective agreeable analogy anglicised animal antepenultimate båll Belonging body Buchanan called chyle colour compounds consonant contrary corrupt costiveness derived Dictionary diphthong distinction DOMESTICK dress enclitical English Entick fåll får fåt favour fish followed French give Greek ground heard herb horse instrument Johnson Kenrick kind language last syllable Latin language letter liquor long sound manner mark Mason ment mêt pine mind môve mute Nares nature neral ness nỏ noise nôt noun nounced observed Obsolete Orthoepy orthography participle penultimate Perry person place the accent plant preposition Preter preterit pron pronounced pronunciation publick quantity Relating rhyme ridan rule Scott second syllable secondary accent seems sharp Sheridan ship short sound shortening signifies speakers species spelling termination thin thing tion triphthong unaccented v. a. To put verb verbal noun vessel vowel vulgar written
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Page 55 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn : Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 287 - Insects, which in their several changes belong to several of the before-mentioned divisions, may be considered together as one great tribe of animals. They are called insects, from a separation in the middle of their bodies, whereby they are, as it were, cut into two parts, which are joined together by a small ligature; as we see in wasps, common flies, and the like.
Page 4 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.
Page 227 - A kind of walk along the floor of a house, into which the doors of the apartments open ; the upper seats in a church ; the scats in a playhouse above the pit, in which the meaner people sit.
Page 48 - But if this letter is too forcibly pronounced in Ireland, it is often too feebly sounded in England, and particularly in London, where it is sometimes entirely sunk...
Page 4 - The cursory pronunciation is always vague and uncertain, being made different in different mouths by negligence, unskilfulness, or affectation. The solemn pronunciation, though by no means immutable and permanent, is yet always less remote from the orthography, and less liable to capricious innovation.
Page 201 - Imagination, the power by which the mind forms to itself images and representations; an opinion bred rather by the imagination than the reason; inclination, liking; caprice, humour, whim ¡ frolick, idle scheme, vagary.
Page 186 - 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 motion. EQUATOR, ¿-kwa-tur, s. 166. A great circle, whose poles are the poles of the world, ït divides the globe into two equal parts, the northern and southern hemispheres.
Page 211 - That part of the side of a quadruped near the hinder thigh : in men, the latter part of the lower belly ; the side of any army or fleet : in fortification, that part of the bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face.
Page 255 - To bid me not to love, Is to forbid my pulse to move, My beard to grow, my ears to prick up, Or (when I'm in a fit) to hiccup.