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Dissertation on the English Language With Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject

By Noah Webster

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DISSERTATIONS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL. To which is added, BY WAY OF APPENDIX, AN ESSAY ON A REFORMED MODE OF SPELLING, WITH DR. FRANKLIN'S ARGUMENTS ON THAT SUBJECT.
PREFACE.
- FOOTNOTES:
CONTENTS.
- DIRECTIONS.
DISSERTATION I.
- INTRODUCTION.
- HISTORY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
- REMARKS.
- FOOTNOTES:
DISSERTATION II.
- Of the ENGLISH ALPHABET.
- RULES of PRONUNCIATION.
- DIFFERENCES of PRONUNCIATION and CONTROVERTED POINTS EXAMINED.
- FOOTNOTES:
DISSERTATION III.
- EXAMINATION of CONTROVERTED POINTS, continued.
- Of MODERN CORRUPTIONS in the ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.
- FOOTNOTES:
DISSERTATION IV.
- FORMATION of LANGUAGE.
- HORNE TOOKE's THEORY of the PARTICLES.
- EXAMINATION of PARTICULAR PHRASES.
- NOUNS.
- POSSESSIVE CASE.
- ARTICLE.
- VERB.
- TIME.
- MODE.
- NUMBER and PERSON.
- AUXILIARIES.
- PARTICLES.
- FOOTNOTES:
DISSERTATION V.
- Of the CONSTRUCTION of ENGLISH VERSE.
- PAUSES.
- EXPRESSION.
- Of READING VERSE.
- FOOTNOTES:
NOTES,
- HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.
- Specimens of the Gothic Languages.
- Specimens of the Celtic Languages.
- Specimens of the Gothic Languages.
- Specimens of the Celtic Languages.
- Specimens of the Gothic Languages.
- Specimens of the Celtic Languages.
- Specimens of the Gothic Languages.
- Specimens of the Finn and Lapland Tongues.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX.
- AN ESSAY
- OBJECTIONS.
- Dr. Franklin's Answer to Miss S——.
- FOOTNOTES: