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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt:... beaucoup de l' Espagnole, de V Italienne, t I hare taken this from Badouin's el de fa Latine. Lu Metifsel les (Jrioles, translation: " Les mots n ont jamais qui ont tant soit peut de curiosité, y doi d' accent sur la dernière syllabe, mais veut bien prendre garde; mais je leur presque toujours sur la pénultième, et rends un bon service, de leur montrer fort rarement sur l' antépénultième: (pour ainsi dire) avec le doigt, de la cour quoiqu' il y ait plusieurs persons, qui d' Espagne, ou Je me trouve, quels sont soutiennent mal-a-propos, que f accent les principes de leur Langue, afin qu' ils doit être sur la dernière." He has other la consenent dans sa pureté. Queldommage ne seroit-ce pas tie souffrhr, qu une word aypixoc was circumflexed on the Concerning the Greek accents, Sarpedonius has followed the steps of Vossius and Henninius, and left the question, which he did not understand, rather more puzzled than he found it. Mr. Dawes hath just touched on this subject in his Miscellanea Critica, but seems not to have employed much thought upon it, and to have fallen therefore into the popular error of accents being inconsistent with quantity: though he does not expressly say, the accents themselves are so, but the common use that is made of them. I wish so able a man had thought this subject more worthy of his notice. The trifling declamation of a late editor of Callimachus, is too insignificant to be taken notice of. He proposes his question thus, "Whether the pronunciation of the Greek is better conducted by accent or quantity?" Which is a question langue si belle, et si utile u ceux, qui la middle.syllable, or seated on the first, latum, » ctrrrompit, et s' alttrit peu a-I will not...