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Excerpt from 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 Latin Proper Names
The Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the Eu glish Language naturally suggested an idea of the present work. Proper names from the Greek and La tin form so considerable a part of every cultivated living language, that a Dictionary seems to be imper feet without them. Polite scholars, indeed, are seldom at a loss for the pronunciation of words they so ftc quently meet with in the learned languages; but there are great numbers of respectable English scholars, who, having only a tincture of classical learning, are much at a loss for a knowledge of this part of it. It is' not only the learned professions that require this knowledge, but almost every one above the merely mechanical. The professors of painting, statuary, and music, and those who admire their works; readers of history, politics, poetry; all who converse on subjects ever so little above the vulgar, have so frequent occa sion to pronounce these proper names, that whatever tends to render this pronunciation easy must necessa rily be acceptable to the public.
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