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SujftttM liae of Ute jean more eapioyed the pens of everj clasi of critickf Una tifieiiwfnt of theE ngliah Langaage. Tke greatest abiU aes in the nation hare Wa cacxtB dla caltiT atiD gand reforming it; nor hare a thousand minor criticks been virtinf toftdd thr mite of amendment to their natire tongue. Johnson, whose large mmik and Jmtft tmate made him capable of enriching and adorning theL anguage with vJB il compoaitioiiy haa condescended to the drudgery of disentangling, explaining, and lETU gB if it, and left a lasting monument of his ability, labour, and patience; and Vt. Lffwtk, the politest scholar of the age, has reiled his superiority in his short I ntt Ktkm to Fiigliah Grammar. The ponderous folio has gravely viodicated the txf raaalocy; ephemeral sheet of news has corrected errours in Gammmg aa well as in Politics, by slyly marking them in iU lics. 9( rtea the iaiproT ement stopped here. While Johnson and Lowth have ben opesatiag on the orthography and construction of our Language, its prohas BOt been aeected. The importance of a consistent and regular proI was too obvious to be overiooked; and the want of this consistency and kas iadaced several ingenious men to endeavour at a reformation; who, ;tho taregularities of pronunciation, and pointing out its analogies, have words that were not irrecoverably fixed in a wrong sound, and pre I heis froai being perverted by ignorance or caprice. thoae writers who deserve the first praise on this subject isM r. Elphinwha, ia kS mP rinciples of theE nglish Language, has reduced the chaos to a i; sad, by a deep investigation of the analogies of our tongue, has laid the I oCa jast and regular prommciation. Urn Dr. Keariek contributed a portion of improvement by his Rhetorical r; ia whidi the words are divided into syllables as they are pronounced, and over tha vowels, to indicate their different sounds. But th
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