 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...grofs inaccuracy; and that we fhould begin our education in England with learning to read the jive vowels, two of which, as we are taught to pronounce them, are clearly diphthongs. There are, indeed, five fimple vocal founds in our language, as in that of Rome, which occur in the... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...grofs, inaccuracy, and that we fhould begin our education in Eng^ land with learning to read the jive vowels, two of which, as we are taught to pronounce them, are clearly diphthongs. There are, in-? deed, five fimple vocal founds in our language, as in that of Rome ; which occur in... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...grofs inaccuracy, and that we fhould begin our education in England with learning to read the Jive vowels, two of which, as we are taught to pronounce them, are clearly diphthongs. There are, indeed, five fimple vocal founds in our language, as in that of Rome ; which occur in the... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...total ignorance, should be into gross inaccuracy, and that we should begin our education in England with learning to read the five vowels, two of which,...taught to pronounce them, are clearly diphthongs.'* But when this ingenious author goes on to detail his own arrangement, we find that it too is among... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1848 - 390 pages
...of e in every word not contained in this sentence. Take one of the combinations of two letters, at, for instance, in this sentence : — 'Captain Paine...are clearly diphthongs.' — Works, 1st ed., Vol. I., p. 183. " The truth is, that there is such an absence of rule, principle, and analogy in our language,... | |
 | Humanities - 1848 - 386 pages
...of e in every word not contained in this sentence. Take one of the combinations of two letters, at, for instance, in this sentence: — 'Captain Paine...are clearly diphthongs.' — Works, 1st ed., Vol. I., p. 183. " The truth is, that there is such an absence of rule, principle, and analogy in our language,... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1848 - 376 pages
...sentence : — " ' Let her leave her burden at the rendezvous, and show the clerk her pretty tame mouse.' here given, if the learner should read in Scott an...are clearly diphthongs.' — Works, 1st ed., Vol. I., p. 183. " The truth is, that there is such an absence of rule, principle, and analogy in our language,... | |
 | William Jones - Asianists - 1993 - 474 pages
...inaccuracy, and that we Ihould begin our education in England with learning to read the jive vowek, tivo of which, as we are taught to pronounce them, are clearly diphthongs. There are, indeed, five fimple vocal founds in our language, as in that of Rome ; which occur in the... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...total ignorance ihould be into grofs inaccuracy; and that we fhould begin our education in England with learning to read the five vowels ', two of which,...taught to pronounce them, are clearly diphthongs. There are, indeed, five fimple vocal founds in our language, as in that of Rome, which occur in the... | |
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It is really deplorable,' as Sir William Jones, speaking of our alphabet, says, ' that our first step from total ignorance should be into gross inaccuracy, and that we should begin our education in English with learning to read the five vowels, two of... 