An Essay on the Pronunciation of the Greek LanguageJ. Murray, 1844 - 309 стор. |
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... invention of letters . The use of language must have pre- ceded the use of letters ; nor do we ever meet with the remotest hint that Cadmus taught the Greeks to utter sounds which they had never uttered before . The art invented or ...
... invention of letters . The use of language must have pre- ceded the use of letters ; nor do we ever meet with the remotest hint that Cadmus taught the Greeks to utter sounds which they had never uttered before . The art invented or ...
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... invention itself affords us no means of show- ing how many of the Greek letters represented primary sounds . We have strong and undis- puted testimony that several letters of the Greek alphabet were not invented till after Homer's time ...
... invention itself affords us no means of show- ing how many of the Greek letters represented primary sounds . We have strong and undis- puted testimony that several letters of the Greek alphabet were not invented till after Homer's time ...
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... invention , a native Greek , as soon as he saw the letters of which a given word was composed , would require no further aid to teach him how long to dwell on each syllable . In the word ΔΕΜΟΣ , as it was written before the invention of ...
... invention , a native Greek , as soon as he saw the letters of which a given word was composed , would require no further aid to teach him how long to dwell on each syllable . In the word ΔΕΜΟΣ , as it was written before the invention of ...
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... invention , they will go on for centuries without inventions which are obvious and useful . And perhaps it would have been equally convenient if some such distinctive character had been framed for the other three vowels . It was chiefly ...
... invention , they will go on for centuries without inventions which are obvious and useful . And perhaps it would have been equally convenient if some such distinctive character had been framed for the other three vowels . It was chiefly ...
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... invention ; but to say that the use of accents is a modern invention , is to say that Plato and Demosthenes spoke in one unvarying note , and that it was reserved for a grammarian of Alexandria to teach the Greeks to improve the ...
... invention ; but to say that the use of accents is a modern invention , is to say that Plato and Demosthenes spoke in one unvarying note , and that it was reserved for a grammarian of Alexandria to teach the Greeks to improve the ...
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