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Man. It is a distinction which, mating from the privilege of reason, raises him above the brute creagenerates the bonds of society, and produces all those amiable charities of in life which constitute its principal delight and interest. In proportion, afore, as man cultivates this high and extensive power, his intercourse with becomes more dignified, and his means of attaining knowledge for himself more extended. Impressed with a conviction of this truth, men have at ies paid attention to this pre-eminent gift of our species, and have cultithe .A rt of Speaking, not only as an ornamental but a useful accomient. Grammarians existed coeval with the best writers, and philology been the object of the study of the cleverest men in all ages. The mians, for instance, were so strenuously bent upon the improvement of tho lneiation of their vernacular tongue, that at the least expression dropped the lips of any Greek who was not an A thenian, they would discover and the very flower-girls and market-women of the city of Minerva, at the improper dialect of any man who did not address âthem inthe style of Attic nicety. The Romans paid the same respect to their native le. In our own country, so many eminent philologists have preceded this path, that little remains for the Editor of a Pronouncing Dictionary English Language, but to familiarize the mind with the knowledge ly extant, and with principles thoroughly established; thus endeavouring, more lucid arrangement of materials, to smooth the road to the attainable ttion of the science. A lthough, at first sight, such a task might be sup humble, trite, and easy, yet the Editor, by the constant pains he has to bring the work to perfection, and the almost interminable difliculties hemet in his way, is well aware that such a performance requires the lst attention, and the most indefatigable care; and nothing but âthe success
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