BA4 
went by the name of Single-fpeech Hamil- 
ton; in which feveral fentences I opine, that 
High Church, New York, Church. of 
Engiand, Hudfon’s- Bay, Single-fpeech, 
are actually and efficiently adjectives.— 
And here I may make one or two obfer- 
vations upon the ufe of the hyphen, 
which I have feen incorrectly employed. 
The ear will always tell you when to 
employ the hyphen. If, in pronouncing 
a fehtence, two or more words of that 
fentence are pronounced as» one word, 
then the hyphen fhouid be inferted to-con- 
ne&t thofe two words as one. In my af- 
fertion, that itis frequent in Englifh to 
ufe fubfantives as adje€tives, I fhould be 
forry to be underftood as maintaining, 
that whenever two fubfiantives come toge- 
ther in the fame cafe, and not in appofi- 
tion, the firft of them is ufed as an adjec- 
tive. I know it is frequent in Englith 
‘erthography to part words, that is, com- 
pound words, and thus leave them, in ap- 
pearance, two words ; though, accord- 
to all rules of grammar, and even to our 
pronunciation of them, they are but one 
compound-word. I iliuftrate this by the 
examples of fox-bunter, legacy-bunter, 
and a variety of -words needlels here to 
enamerate ; but of which I have here re- 
marked, that (generally, if not always,) 
the Jaft word in the compound word has 
fome fort of government over its preced- 
img affociate. In addition to this remark, 
I have torepeat, that the pronunciation of 
two fach words (written incorrectly as 
two words, but in faét one,) is decidedly 
as if they were one word. The accent is 
not both upon légacy and béater, as it 
would be were they two words, but upon 
the firt fylleble of /egacy (or rather of 
légacybunter,) only. And I maintain, 
that, if our countrymen do not choofe, as 
would be more correct, to write thefe two 
arts of one word as one word, they ovght 
at leaft to infert the hyphen between them 
to fhew their connection. Wherever two 
more words are ufed as one, I would em-. 
ploy the hyphen, whether thefe two or 
more words are in fact only ove word, 
(uniefs in that cafe, as would be more ju- 
dicious, they are written clefe united, as 
one word,) or are feveral words ufed toge- 
ther as one member of a fentence. The 
latter cafe is that of High Church, in 
«© High-Church Politics ;?? Church of 
England, in “* Church-of-Engsand difci- 
pline 3” anda thoufand inftances, which 
at is unneceflary to trouble your readers 
withenumerating. jJam,-&c. 
é BaBENSI5y 
Cantabrigiand, 
[May 13 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA: 
CLE1X.—AN APOLOGY. 
ATIN, it is well known, has beer 
confidered, from the earhie ages, as 
the academical language. Our exercifes in 
colleges, and in the public fchools, the 
conciones. ad clerum in the univerfity 
churches, the public bufine’s in the fenate~ 
houfe and theatre, are delivered, for the 
greater part, in Latin; the proceedings, 
likewife, at the time of taking degrees, | 
whether in arts, law, phyfic, or divinity, 
are all conduéted in Latin. Even a esn- 
didate for a mufical degree, though not 
obliged to fet the formula to mufic, mult 
be introduced by the profeffler with Pra. 
feato tibt bunc virum. 
Foreign univerfities alfo have adopted, 
as their own, the Latin tongue; partly 
indeed from fuperftitious motives, and 
partly from admiration of the ancient 
claffics. All have affected it in their imi- 
tations of the Roman poets, and all made 
it the vehicle of the arts and {ciences 
through Europe. 
It is to be prefumed, then, that an im- 
perfect work, like the prefent, will obtain 
a little indulgence, and not be denounced. 
as pedantic, for endeavouring to pronouce 
the fhibboleth (if fo it muft be proclaimed), 
of its party. Quotations from a learned 
language, judicioufly introduced, may 
fometimes give {plendour and dignity to 2 
difcourfe ; but a profufion of them, we 
acknowledge, throws no glory over elo- 
quence, and, confefledly, adds neither 
‘rilliancy nor authority to fentiment. A 
broad tinfel-elare affords proof neither of 
tafte, nor of opulence, nor of truth; and, 
inftead of being demonfirative of inven- 
tion, is often its fubftitute. Genius, which 
finds fources in its own powers, fcorns 
to be always borrowing of neighbours. 
Truth, whofe eagle-eye pierces into the 
heaven of heavens, may be even opprefled 
by a weight of teftimonies ; and their owa 
genuine beautics are more ftriking to an 
intelligent beholder, than an everlatting’ 
difplay of heterogenous ornaments. © 
But a farrago trifling as this, a work 
which, indeed, fometimes, in defiance of 
a well-known maxim, even labours after 
trifles, and which alpires not to the cha- 
raéter of a regular diflertation, may be 
allowed to recede fomewhat from the efta- 
blithed laws of polite writing. It may 
be permitted to follow a favourite propen- 
fity ; to indulge an innocent predilection 5 
to humour an uniyerfity prejudice 5 to con- 
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