 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...QJ1ANTITY, EMPHASIS, PAUSE, CHAPTER I. SECT. 1. Of Accent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a...the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and the second syllable, stime, which take the accent. ' As words maybe formed of a different number of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...VERSIFICATION. CHAPTER I. OfPROKUNCIAVIOV. SECT. 1. Of Accent. ASCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a...presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter «, and the second syllable, sume, which take the accent. As words maybe formed of a different number... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...VERSIFICATION. CHAPTER I. OF PRONUNCIATION.. SECTION 1. Of Accent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a...rest, or distinguished from them : as, . in the word prtsinne, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable, sume, which take the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...' •\ CHAPTER I. OF PRONUNCIATION. SECTION 1. Of Accent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a...on the letter u, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. As words may be formed of a different number of syllables, from one to eight or nine,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...CAAPTER I. Of PRONUNCIATION. Suet-. 1. Of Aecent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of die voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word,...presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter ?/, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. As words may be formed of a different number... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...EMPHASIS, PAUSE, and TONE ; and. the latter, the laws of ACCENT. Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter- or syllable in a...rest, or distinguished from them : as, in the word preziime, the .stress of the voice must be on the letter u, and second syllable, •« hich take the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 352 pages
...VERSIFICATION. CHAPTER I. Of PRONUNCIAfION. SECTION i. Of Accent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar strfessof the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word,...presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter y, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. As words may be formed of a different number of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1811 - 322 pages
...CHAPTER. I. 6f Pronunciation. SECT. 1. Of Aecent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar stress of t\»e voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word,...be on the letter u, and second syllable sume, which take the aceent. As words may be formed of a different number of syllables, from one to eight or nine,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...TONE; and the latter, the laws of VERSIFICATION. decent. Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter or syllable in a...presume, the stress of the voice must be on the letter it, and second syllable, sume, which take the accent. Quantity. The quantity of a syllable is that... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1814 - 254 pages
...Syllable, 6e pronounced with its proper Accent. ACCENT is the laying of a peculiar ftrefs of the voice en a certain letter or Syllable in a word, that it may be ietter heard than the reft, or diftinguifhed from them. Every word of more than one fyllable has one... | |
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Accent Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice on a certain letter or syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them... 
