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Nouns Verbs corrected 
eae ee eee 
aoranAc’cent toaccent’ akfnt  akfent 
Cem’ ent cement’. femant. fiment 
Con’ cert concert’ konfart kanfart 
Con’ teft.. conteft” konteft. kanteft,. 
I had written a great number of rules on polyfyllabic 
words, as fhortand fimple as I thought it poflible to com- 
pofe them, .but on reading. what I had written, thought 
them too tedious, difficult, and liable to exception, therefore 
have omitted them wholly, by which I think I have not only 
done.a juftice to mylelf, but alfo a kindnefs to the reader. 
Many words that grammiarians have thought proper to » 
accent, and for which they have given long-laboured, diffi- - 
cult, and.complex rules, with as many exceptions, require 
no accent whatever; for, if they are pronounced with all 
the monotony and even-nefs of which the organs are ca- 
pable, the very compofition of the words, if corre€tly writ- - 
ten, gives greater force to one part than to another, and it - 
is impoflible, without affeCtation, to pronounce them im- - 
properly, even according to the ideas of grammarians. 
Where the common vowels are long they ought to be | 
written twice, as among the ancients, who wrote amaabam, - 
feedes, &c.--The J inftead of being written twice, was 
made twice as long, as in vivus, pIso, &c.--In Englith 
the * common or firft clafs of vowels are often doubled at 
prefent, when long, but not univerfally; and in correé& 
writing, the accent will alfo be laid, where the other vow- 
els, or the fecond clafs, and the afpirates, are double.’ . 
A di&tionary alone will contain the means of correét- 
ing all uncertainties with refpect to the accent, as well as 
orthography of words; and attention to good fpeakers is 
the only mode of correcting our ideas concerning the em-. 
phatic words of fentences. 
EMPHASIS 
*-Of the New Characters page 277: 
