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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... alter , either for the better or worse , still have a jingling proverb with this pronunciation , when they say As old as Poules . น The sound of the letter z is no less sincerely preserved in Plautus , in Menæch page 622 , edit . Lambin ...
... alter , either for the better or worse , still have a jingling proverb with this pronunciation , when they say As old as Poules . น The sound of the letter z is no less sincerely preserved in Plautus , in Menæch page 622 , edit . Lambin ...
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... from that language . What , then , must we alter that long catalogue of words where this letter occurs , as in Genesis , genius , Diogenes , Egyptus , & c . ? —The question answers itself , A - ris'te - as A - ris ' te 14 AR AR AR.
... from that language . What , then , must we alter that long catalogue of words where this letter occurs , as in Genesis , genius , Diogenes , Egyptus , & c . ? —The question answers itself , A - ris'te - as A - ris ' te 14 AR AR AR.
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... alter it . Pantheon . This word is universally pronounced with the accent on the second syllable in English , but in Latin it has its first syllable accented ; and this accentuation makes so slight a difference to the ear , that it ...
... alter it . Pantheon . This word is universally pronounced with the accent on the second syllable in English , but in Latin it has its first syllable accented ; and this accentuation makes so slight a difference to the ear , that it ...
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... alter their termination with the accent on the Penultimate : With other notes than to the Orphëan lyre.- The tuneful tongue , the Promethean hand.- -MILTON . AKENSIDE . And sometimes on the Antepenultimate , as ――――― The sun , as from ...
... alter their termination with the accent on the Penultimate : With other notes than to the Orphëan lyre.- The tuneful tongue , the Promethean hand.- -MILTON . AKENSIDE . And sometimes on the Antepenultimate , as ――――― The sun , as from ...
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... so generally pronounced with the antepenultimate accent , that it would savour of pedantry to alter it . Nor do I understand the reasons on which Labbe founds his accentuation . Carbilius , Orbilius , Acilius , Cæcilius , Lucilius , ( 160 )
... so generally pronounced with the antepenultimate accent , that it would savour of pedantry to alter it . Nor do I understand the reasons on which Labbe founds his accentuation . Carbilius , Orbilius , Acilius , Cæcilius , Lucilius , ( 160 )
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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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