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Show e M O A TH T 0 U T 1 RAMM AR, which is the art of ufing words properly, comprifes four parts; Orthography, Etymology, Syntax and Profody To thefe may be added certain combinations of letters univer {ally ufed in printing; as &, &, f, {1, b, k, &, fI, 4, fii, fi, fi, fil and &, or and per fe, and. &, [t fl, [l [ Jos (5.5 175 [os fos ffis _In this divifion and order of the parts of grammar I .follow the common grammarians, without enquiring whether a fitter diftribution might not be found Experience has long fhown this method to be fo diftin& as to obviate confufion and fo comprehenfive as to prevent any inconvenient omiffions I likewife uf the terms.already received, and already underftood, though perhaps others mor proper might fometimes be invented Sylburgius, and other innovators, whof new terms bave funk their learning into negle@, have left fufficient warnin againft the trifling ambition of teaching arts in a new language Ct ft fl .fi ff The letters of the Englith language are Italick, Old Englith, Name Roman o TeUagan otet twenty-four becaufe ancientlyi and 7 Non of the fmall confonants have a double form except f; s of which [i ufed in the beginning and middle, and s at the end Vowels are five 2, e, 1, 0, u Such is the number generally received ; but for 7 it is th pradtice to write y in the end of words, as thy, boly ; before i as from die, dying5 from beautify, beantifying ; in the words fays days, eyes ; and in words derived from the Greek, and writte U as[)fiem a'tfis‘r,‘u,oc 3 fympatb_y a‘v/./.vréf.:fsm The founds of all the letters are various In treating on the letters, I fhall not, like fome other grammarians ds e into the original of their form, as an antiquarian je aitc (or j confonant k enquir nor into their formation an prolation by .the organs of fpeech, as a mechanick, anatomift, or phyfiologift nor into the properties and gradation of founds, or the elegance or harfhnefs o particular combinations, as a writer of univerfal and tranfcendental grammar. confider the Englith alphabet only as itis Englith; and even in this narrow difquifition I follow the example of former grammarians, perhaps with more reve- rence than judgment, becaufe by writing in Englith I fuppofe my reader alread acquainted with the Englith language, and confequently able to pronounce th letters, of which I teach the pronunciation; and becaufe of founds in general i An account therefor may be obferved, that words are unable to defcribe them e of the primitive and fimple letters is ufelefs almoft alike to thofe who know thei e n;:{:,n*a:bz ARNOSOTHEN WERE @4 as raw, grew, view, vow, flowing, lownefs Se Y LIR TNYNRSO N ¥ NA @ ffi m For # we often write av after a vowel, to make a diphthong b found e Of - Yo @R pe and thofe who know it not [ [las J cu a A has three founds of the flender open and broad A flender is found in moft words, as face, mane te {or w @ confenant double e w fi ras well as # and =z, were exprefled by the fame charaéter; but as thofe letters which had always different powers, have now different forms, our alphabet ma be properly faid to confift of twenty-fix letters originally wit o H T O SO NANM voRR NR HASe Q Wor. T N<dXEg<srsmomoB N<xg<dfimgpwozghwmemmmdow o =T e OO 6:35"‘75" N*<-><'<:<::d~1‘:s_gs U NIXE<SCHPERL=O0ZZH a axon nE It therefore teaches previoufly the for fi Our letters are commonly reckone " ORTHOGRAPHY is the art of combining letters into fyllables and [yllables into awords and found of letters 'E €T ending in ation as creation, falvation and in word gemeration The a flender is the proper Englith @, called very juftly by Erpenius, .in hi Arabick Grammar, a Anglicum cum e miftum, as having a middle found betwee The French have a fimilar found in the word pais, and i the open « and the e their e mafculine " Aopen is the a of the Italian, or nearly refembles it; a zed, mor fathers rather, congratulate, fanmcy, glafs commonly izzar A broad refembles the # of the German ; as a//, wall, call or uzzard, that i Many words pronounced with 4 broad were anciently written with az, a /S bard This was probably the Saxon ibm;g faulty mault5 and we &ill fay fault, vauit fe |