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Mr* Pickering on the Pronunciation 



of this language has undergone any essential change i 

 course of eighteen centuries, I cannot helieve to be the fact 



the 

 On 



I think it can be very satisfactorily shown, that lit 



tie alteration has taken place 



adopt 



that length of time. By 





pronunciation of the present day 



f 



express it, approximate very nearly to that of 



ancient times. How far preferable 



be to 



barba 



roua 



of pronouncing Greek just as we do our own Ian 



■"-u 



1 need not stop to remark. This 



i 



En 



» 



brethren, as well as ourselves, justify by the example of the 



European nations in general, who 



tice. But 



dopted a similar prac 



J 



rests upon a palpable fallacy; for 



defensible as the rule may be 



the 



not applicable to those 

 pronunciation of the E 



ho speak 



a 



of other nations, it is 

 En^^lish lansuase. The 



vowels, 



0""3 



letters, pariicularly of 



tially different from that of the other European Ian 

 principal sounds of which are undoubtedly much th 



f the Latin and Greek 



The same rule, therefore 



be a very good one for the nations of the continent of 



Europe, will be a very fallacious one for En 



In the case of another ancient language, I mean the 



Hebre 



very well satisfied with making such an approximation 



(for that we do no more than approxi 



; 



h 



o 



d,) and, 

 learned 



of tlie Masoret 



points 



brew, which may be traced back to 



pronunciation of H 



pronunciation 



a very ancient date 



Th 



and 



follow 



be an improved 



as for a time discountenanced by Mas- 

 ho attempted to introduce what was 



thodj and the innovation 



fa 



