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... rule : adulation is to be pronounced ad - ju - la ' - shun , compendium is com - pen ' - je - um , ingredient , in - gre ́ - jent , & c . This , in a passage read or spoken with solemnity , would be intolerable . In like manner the ...
... rule : adulation is to be pronounced ad - ju - la ' - shun , compendium is com - pen ' - je - um , ingredient , in - gre ́ - jent , & c . This , in a passage read or spoken with solemnity , would be intolerable . In like manner the ...
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... rule : A has the long , open , slender sound , when followed by a single con- sonant , and e mute , as lade , made , fade , & c . The only exceptions seem to be , have , are , gape , and bade , the past time of to bid . A has generally ...
... rule : A has the long , open , slender sound , when followed by a single con- sonant , and e mute , as lade , made , fade , & c . The only exceptions seem to be , have , are , gape , and bade , the past time of to bid . A has generally ...
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... rule are generally words from the Arabic and Latin lan- guages , as Alps , Albion , asphaltic , fal- cated , salvo , calculate , amalgamate , Alcoran , and Alfred , & c . Our modern orthography , has made it necessary to observe , that ...
... rule are generally words from the Arabic and Latin lan- guages , as Alps , Albion , asphaltic , fal- cated , salvo , calculate , amalgamate , Alcoran , and Alfred , & c . Our modern orthography , has made it necessary to observe , that ...
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... rule of sounding this letter before r , followed by another consonant . The vowel e before and n in the final unaccented syllable , by its being sometimes suppressed and sometimes not , forms one of the most puzzling difficulties in ...
... rule of sounding this letter before r , followed by another consonant . The vowel e before and n in the final unaccented syllable , by its being sometimes suppressed and sometimes not , forms one of the most puzzling difficulties in ...
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... rule are so numerous , that nothing but a cata- logue would give a tolerable idea of the state of pronunciation in this point . Chicane and chicanery have the i always short , or more properly slender . Ci before the accent has the i ...
... rule are so numerous , that nothing but a cata- logue would give a tolerable idea of the state of pronunciation in this point . Chicane and chicanery have the i always short , or more properly slender . Ci before the accent has the i ...
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Common terms and phrases
animal applied Belonging bird body bull;-oil;-pound;-thin called Capable cause chyle colour consisting corrupt costiveness cover degree deprive dignity dress fall fat;-me Fate figure fire fish give ground heraldry honour horse join kal-le liquor manner mean measure medicine ment met;-pine mind motion move musick n. s. A kind n. s. A plant n. s. A small n. s. A sort n. s. A species n. s. act n. s. An instrument n. s. In law n. s. pl n. s. The act n. s. The office n. s. The quality n. s. Want nature ness ngt;-tube noise not;-tube pass passion person piece pin;-no plural pound;-thin preter pron publick quantity Relating resembling ship sound stone syllable term thin thing tion tree v. a. Pret v. a. To put v. n. To grow vessel violent woman word Το
Popular passages
Page 514 - If we search the writings of Virgil, for the true definition of a pastoral, it will be found a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life.
Page 330 - ... but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of some nearer heir being born : as a brother, or nephew, whose presumptive succession may be destroyed by the birth of a child ; or a daughter, whose present hopes may be hereafter cut off by the birth of a son.
Page 474 - An imaginary being supposed to preside over the material and animal world ; the native state or properties of any thing, by which it is discriminated from others...
Page 454 - A place or cavern in the earth, which contains metals or minerals ; a cavern dug under any fortification that it may sink for want of support, or...
Page 116 - A space upon the surface of the earth, measured from the equator to the polar circles ; in each of which spaces the longest day is half an hour longer than in that nearer to the equator.
Page 486 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 243 - A great circle, whose poles are the poles of the •world. It divides the globe into two equal parts, the northern and southern hemispheres.
Page 85 - A figure in poetry, by which a short syllable after a complete foot is made long ; a pause in verse.
Page 183 - A thing given or forfeited to God for the pacifying his wrath, in case of any misfortune, by which any Christian comes to a violent end, without the fault of any reasonable creature...
Page 247 - The descent or derivation of a word from its original, the deduction of formations from the radical word ; the part of grammar which delivers the inflections of nouns and verbs.