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304. Cc A DIM W'S 
EMPHASIS 
Denotes the firefs of voice upon the important or illuf- 
trative words of a fentence, or upon a fentence in a dif- 
courfe, but is no further conne&ed with my fubje&, than 
by the diftinGions which we ought to adopt in writing, 
and the following are what I would chiefly recommend. 
Let emphatic words and the name of either perfon or’ 
place, begin witha large letter, words of greater import be 
in italics, and the whole word occafionally bea fize larger 
than the common text; i of great importance let this 
commence witha flill larger letter. Emphatic fentences 
may be diftinguifhed by italics ora larger type—In writ- 
ing, words and fentences.may have one, two or three lines 
drawn under them, or writ in a larger hand, or both, ac- 
cording to the force of the intended expreflion—The cuf- 
tom of writing all nouns with capitals ought to be difufed, 
as few of the Jef grammarians underftand that nouns, 
verbs, and abbreviatives, compofe the whole of language.* 
Much has been written by fome ingenious men on 
‘DIGRAPHS AND DIPHTHONGS, 
Butif they had {pent half as much time in correcting writ- 
ten language, as they have beftowed in forming general 
rules, with fuch a number of exceptions, to bring the er- 
rors of written language into order, it would have much 
facilitated our learning; for really a /anguage is almoft as 
eafily learnt, as the rules by which it is at prefent taught. 
The appropriation of a feparate character to every found, 
will utterly deftroy theidea of digraphs in correct writing; 
and as for diphthongs they never exified inany language :-- 
they are faid, by Th: Sheridan, to be **a coalition of two 
<¢ vowels to form one found—and triphthongs three”— 
but the fame organs that are employed to form one found 
cannot 
“Secthe ENEA MITEPOENTA of John Horne Tooke, 
