182 == Mr. Harvey's Obfervations 
That this letter c was of a hard found in the. 
Latin, appears, from many inftances, beyoud a 
doubt. ‘The Roman title, which we, as well as 
fome others, have melted into the foft found,. 
Cesar, as Dr. Johnfon would have it. fpelt, has 
in the German language preferved the true founds 
of the confonants and diphthong, as Key/er. It has 
often been a fubject of difpute among the learned, 
whether the letter C fhould be founded like K or 
like S; to this Mr, Pope alludes in the Dunciad: 
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’T is true on words is ftill our whole debate, 
Difpute of me or te, of aut or at ; 
To found or fink in cano O or A, 
Or give up Cicero to C or K. 
"But it is furprizing that there fhould be two 
opinions refpecting it; for the generally juft ana- 
logy between nouns and their oblique cafes, and 
between certain tenfes of verbs, is proof fuffici- 
ently evident, that the ufual modern method of 
founding the C, before fome vowels, is erroneous. 
Whenever Cis ufedasan§, it ought certainly to have 
fuch a mark annexed, as might diftinguith it from 
the hard and genuine found. Thus, if.we muft 
write C/i-CIAS and pronounce SE-SIAS, there 
fhould be a cedilla, or fome fuch mark below the 
¢, as im Spanifh and French: or, for the foft 
found, 
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