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will be of no avail: and if this grammar is to be useful, it will be so because it has deviated from the common track by insisting upon practice upon the elements: because it leaves nothing to the student; but puts before him in black and white, a series of exercises which he is to practice with his voice, and which he is to practice, let it be repeated, until the one particular branch of the art over which it is the object of such exercises to give him a complete mastery, is attained.

The articulation, in the use of these tables will, perhaps, at first, be somewhat stiff and formal; as the teacher ought to insist on the exact pronunciation of every element contained in them in the order in which they are found: bnt if the organs of speech are diligently and perseveringly exercised in these difficult combinations, they will, by degrees, acquire facility as well as precision, grace as well as force: and in the end distinctness and ease will be united and permanently secured. Exactness and grace go together in other gymnastic exercises, in fencing, in riding, in boxing; why should they not also be the result of the nobler gymnastics of the voice. -

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TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS

Bl.bdst.

bl. bld. bldst.

blz. blst.

br.

bs.bst.

IN COMBINATION.

as in lor-b'd, pro-b'd'st.

a-ble, trou-bl'd, trou-bl'd'st, troubles, trou-bl'st.

br-and.
ri-bs, rob-b'st.

dlst.

dr.

dz.

dth. dths.

bz.

pro-bes,

dl. dld. dlz. as in can-dle, han-dl'd, can-dles, fon

dl'st.

dr-ove.

dee-ds.

brea-th, brea-dths.

fl. fld. flst. flz.

fr.

fl-ame, tri-fl'd, tri-fl'st, tri-fles.
fr-ame.

fs.fst.

ft. fts. ftst.

wa-ft, wa-fts, wa-ft'st.

fs.

gd.gdst.

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gl. gld. glz.

[blocks in formation]

lau-ghs, lau-gh'st.

cli-ffs.

brag-ged, brag-g'd'st.

gl-ow, hag-gled, man-gles, man

gl'st.

gr-ave.

pi-gs, wa-g'st.
hed-ged.

un-cle, tin-cl'd, truc-kles, truc-kl'st,

[blocks in formation]

e-lbe, bu-lb'd, bu-lbs.

ho-ld, ho-lds, ho-ld'st.
e-lf, e-lfs, de-lft ware.
bu-lge.

mi-lk, mi-lk'd, si-ilks, mu-let,
mu-lcts.

e-lm, whe-lm'd, whe-lms.
fa-ll'n.

he-lp, he-lps, he-lp'st.

fa-lse, fa-ll'st.

fe-lt, ha-lts.

she-lve, she-lv'd, e-lves.

ba-lls.

fi-lch, fi-lch'd.

[blocks in formation]

rv. rud. ruz. rust. rvtst.

TZ.

rch. rcht.

rsh.

as incu-rve, cu-rv'd, cu-rves, cu-rv'st,

cu-rv'd'st.

e-rrs.

sea-rch, sea-rch'd.

ha-rsh.

hea-rth, hea-rths.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

vst.

zl. zld. zlz. zlst. zldst.

Zm.zmz.

zn. znd. znz.

cht.

znst. zndst.

[blocks in formation]

Before the student proceeds to reading and declamation, we recommend that he should exercise himself upon the following short sentences. They are selected for the purpose of giving facility and precision of articulation in the use of the combinations in the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them.

And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor.

'Till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up. Shakspeare.

He was incapable of a mean or unquestionable action. He was amiable,* respectable, formidable, unbearable, intolerable, unmanageable, terrible.

He was branded as a traitor.

Thou prob'st my wound, instead of healing it.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide.

But Ruth clave unto her.

Create a soul under the ribs of death.

Gentlemen may cry peace.

Can you say crackers, crime, cruelty, crutches.

It was an affair of pic-nicks.

It was the act of all the acts of government the most objectionable.

*The syllables, ble, ple, cle, &c. are hardly ever pronounced at the end of long words with sufficient distinctness and force, to be heard' through an extensive space.

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