1806.] Progrejs of Afironovii; iii liO^^ht/ LaUnule. 



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Mr. Walker's Pronouncing Diftionary. 

 lie likewife intends to introduce fucii 

 compounded words as giddij-ltcaded, 

 ta/te-pleajing, fun-refijllng, and to ex- 

 clude the compounds of iil anil well, they 

 *' being dillinCt words, and not uniting 

 with thofe to which they are applied," 

 Now it appears to me that ill-natured, 

 ill-bred, Kelfore, and uiimnc, are fully 

 as much united as the others, and I 

 think have, from general ul'age, a fiipe- 

 rior title to infcrtion. Indeed, the conlli- 

 tuent parts of the two lall cannot, with- 

 out manifeft impropriety, be disjoined ; 

 and there is an additional rcafun for the 

 infcrtion of the latter, namely, that uel- 

 cume is an a6iive traiilitive vcrlj, admit- 

 ting for its particiiilc welcomed, a fub- 

 ftantive, and an adjc6tive, or perhaps a 

 participial ; whereas the fimple come is 

 an active intranlitive verb, and a parti- 

 ciple, and incapable of being ufed as a 

 fubrtantive. My advice, however, is, to 

 reject all arbitrarily-conjoined perfect 

 ■words, (that is, unlefs there are fpocial rea- 

 fons for the contrary,) whofe funples are 

 in general ufc, and well known, and of 

 which the full and real meaning can be 

 eaCly difcovered in the Dictionary, by 

 a combination of the refpettive meanings 

 of the fnnple words of which they are 

 compofed. But, on the contrary, when 

 two words put together acquire a fort of 

 figurative meaning, or any other meaning 

 not neccfl'arily and obvionily refulting 

 from a combination of their ufual figniti- 

 cations as iimples, as the words overcome, 

 overlook, &c., in many of which it often 

 happens too, that, by means of the pre- 

 pofition, the fimple intranfitive verb be- 

 comes tranlitive, then tlieir infcrtion be- 

 comes abfolutely necelVary. Mr. P. will 

 bave likewife to determine on the ortho- 

 graphy of many words, which fome, after 

 the French manner, write with the prefix 

 en, and others, according to the Latin, 

 with in ; as well as that of others formed 

 from participles of the fecond conjuga- 

 tion in Latin, which fome terrninate in 

 ent, as they do their fubftantives in ence, 

 and others in ant and mice. I have not 

 feen the Supplement to Johnfon's Dic- 

 tionai-y ; but I think he ought to admit 

 derange and derangement {deranged be- 

 ing a participle, or participial,) words 

 long in general circulation, but wliich I 

 could never fmd in any Di6tonary. On 

 the fcore of derivation, it is almoft unnc- 

 ceflary to repeat, that the invaluable phi- 

 lological refearchcs of the celebrated Mr. 

 Iloriie Tooke, which have lately received 



a. confiderab!^ addition, cannot efcape 

 the notice of a compiler of a Dictionary ; 

 and the Engliih Grammar lately pubiuh- 

 ed by Dr.Crombie, a work of the greateft 

 ingenuity and the foundell criticifm, will 

 yield hiui elfeatial afliltauce in afctitain- 

 ing many contelled points of grammar 

 neceiiarily connected with a compilation 

 of this nature. 



Should Mr. P. be able to carry into ef- 

 fe6t his own projcWcd retbnns, and to 

 fteer clear of the errors and abfurditics of 

 his predecelfors, and to determine fatis- 

 faitorily, as far at leail as that can rea- 

 fonably be expected, many difputod opi- 

 nions about accentuation, and in other 

 brandies connected with his highly im- 

 portant and laborious undertaking, he 

 will deferve well of his country, and, 

 how inadequate foever his reward may 

 be in other rcfperts, will have reafon to 

 exclaim, in the proud words of the poet, 

 Excgi inonumentum sere percnuius. 

 I am, Sir, your's, &c., 



J. Grant. 

 Crouchend, Highgatc, 

 June 4, ISOG. 



For the MonthI)/ ALignzine. 



HISTOJIY of .\STR0N0MY_/())- 1805, Jj/JB- 



ROsrR i)E LALANUE. — (Concluded.) 



WE have received from Portugal 

 the Ephemerides of Coimbra tor 

 1805 ; they aiv like thofe of 1804, which 

 we noticed lalt year. The author has 

 excluded the figns and the feconds ; 

 every thing is exprcffed in hours, mi- 

 nutes, and hundredths ; all the calcula- 

 tions are for mean noon. The article 

 concerning the planets contains all the 

 longitudes, the latitudes heliocentric and 

 geocentric, their right afcenfions, their 

 declinations, their paffages of the meri- 

 dian, and their parallax. Inftead of the 

 configuration of the fatellites, the work 

 fliews tlieir fituation relatively to the 

 centre of Jupiter, at the moment of 

 eclipfes, exprelTed by two rectangular co- 

 difpofed figures, one of which has for its 

 axis the line of the belts. The diilances 

 of the Moon from the Sun and ftars are 

 given only for Oh. and 12h. ; but we find, 

 as in the preceding volume, fubUdiary 

 Tables, intended to fpare mariners the 

 trouble of employing the Tables of Lo- 

 garithms in the mofl; common calcula- 

 tions. The firft volume contains Tables 

 adapted to the calculation, without the 

 aid of logarithms, of the horary angles, 

 the azimuths, and the feini-diurnal arcs ; 

 the diilaiices of the Mooa fryia the Itars, 



for 



