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fo jong have neglected to facilitate the intercourfe of na- 
tions, by rendering the mode of acquiring every language 
eafy, which might be obtained as well by books as by 
travelling into the different countries where they are fpok= 
en, if thofe books were correct. 
SYLLABLES, 
No word or fyllable in the Englith language is formed 
by afpirates alone, but many fyllables are formed by what 
fome of the moft ingenious call confonants, and their ar= 
guments upon them fall, becaufe built upon falfe data. 
Th: Sheridan fays “ The terminating b/e is always 
** accounted a fyllable though in ftri& propriety it is not 
** fo; for, to conftitute a fyllable it is requifite that a vow- 
*¢ el fhould be founded in it, which is not the cafe here; 
‘*¢ for though there is one prefented to the eye at the end, 
*¢ yet itis only é final mute, and the 4/ are taken into the 
*¢ articulation of the former fyllable; but in pointing out 
“* the feat of the accent I fhall confider it in the ufual way 
‘“¢ as forming a fyllable.””* 
_ If Mr. Sheridan had confidered the true power of either 
Sor /, he would have found them both vowels, and that 
together they form a perfect fyllable, as well as /, z/, vl, 
ml, nl, gl, dl, fl, fl, kl, pl, tl, m,n, zn, un, dn, /n, tn, nd, 
nt, fnt: Ifa Line of Poetry be fcanned which contains any 
of the above /y//ables, the reader will be convinced of their 
being fuch, by the impoffibility of reading them otherwife. 
¢ A wild, where weeds and flow’rs promifc’ous fhoot, 
** Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit. 
** Together let us beat this ample field, 
‘¢ Try what the open, what the covert yield; 
RE The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore: 
Pope’s Effay on Man line 7th. 
Pp 2 Properly 
Pp 
* Page xliv, Profod: Gram: (prefixed to his dictionary.) 
