162 Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
“« is not the long found contraéted, but a found 
is wholly different.”* 
This is certainly true in part: why therefore fe 
only one character for two founds, wholly different? 
If Dr. Johnfon had refolved the found into its 
principles, he would have been enabled to give a 
much more precife and fatisfactory account of this 
-Jetter. But indeed, this excellent and ingenious _ 
Author had been fo much accuftomed to the more 
delightful parts of Grammar—to the compofition 
of works, which will bear the teft of ages; that 
he feemed to forget that the language of fcience, 
and the moft beautiful leffons of morality cannot 
be tranfmitted to pofterity, without the aid of 
letters, included in words; and, therefore, he has 
treated of this part of Grammar too faftidioufly, 
and confequently, in fome refpedts, erroneoufly. 
He has done much towards eftablifhing a ftandard 
of words, for fuch as know how to ufe them; 
without doing enough for the true diftinétion of 
fyllables, by which the language would be acquired 
by children in half the ufual time, and be of 
eafy accefs to foreigners defirous of learning it, 
from whom it is, generally, long withheld by nu- 
merous impediments. And moreover, he is rather 
too 
* Dr. Jortin, fpeaking of the modern Greek pronun- 
ciation, in his Life of Erafmus, vol. ii. page 140, fays 
fomething like this: that “they pronounce the , not 
“© broad, as we Englifh do in templi; but fofter, as we de 
© in templis.” 
