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On the whole, then, I am inclined to conclude, not only that 

 the ancient Greeks as well as the modern read both verfe and 

 profe by accent, which, indeed, the learned bilhop before alluded 

 to always inlifts, but alfo, which he denies, that they fufFered the 

 accents to control and alter the quantity ; he does not indeed 

 deny this, if the tones are given where the accentual marks are 

 placed, but he denies that they were fo given. Dacier, Pearce and 

 Clarke admit that they read profe by accent, not by quantity. The 

 learned prelates contend that they could not have had a different 

 mode* of reading profe and verfe. I accept both propolitions, though 

 without admitting their inferences,* and the combination of 

 thofe propofitions proves my opinion, which however I do not 

 advance dogmatically or decidedly, but with that feeling which 

 I think becomes every member of this Academy, of wifhing to 

 advance ufeful or ornamental knowledge by free difculTion and 

 the fu£;geftion of fuch ideas as feem to him worthy at leaft of the 

 confideration of the literary world. In the idea that accent muft 

 affed quantity I have numerous fupporters as well as opponents. 

 I only differ from the former in thinking that verfe muft ftill be 

 read by accent. I fhall not trouble the fociety further but by the 

 addition of a copy of a letter written by a Greek failor belonging 

 to the fhip I have mentioned to the agent fent over here by the 



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• Of the former that verfe is not to be read by aceent : of the latter, that 

 though it is, its quantity is not thereby afFedled. 



