Practical Cosmophonography: A System of Writing and Printing All the Principal Languages, with Their Exact Pronunciation, by Means of an Original Universal Phonetic Alphabet, Based Upon Philological Principles, and Representing Analogically All the Component Elements of the Human Voice, as They Occur in Different Tongues and Dialects ...

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J.S. Redfield, 1850 - 156 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 241 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
الصفحة 98 - Most of the letters have four forms in writing, depending on whether they occur at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or whether they stand separately.
الصفحة 241 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
الصفحة 15 - With thy light fingers' swift career. Say, who is it that doth betray The cogitations of my heart. Who dares to thee my inmost thoughts, Ere they are uttered, to impart? It surely is no human skill That works such miracles as these; No other mortal e'er performed Such feats with such consummate ease, Nay, now I see, the mystery's clear, Some kindly goddess, at thy birth, Bestowed on thee this wondrous gift, In memory of her trip to earth.
الصفحة 15 - Come hither, young and active scribe. Prepare thy tablets to record In quick flying dots and strokes, What I shall dictate, word for word. O wondrous art! though from my lips The words like pattering hailstones fall, Thine ear hath caught them every one, Thy nimble pen portrayed them all. Quick darts thy hand across the page, No other movement scarce is seen; Yet in its track a thick array Of signs instinct with meaning gleam My words, no sooner are pronounced Than on thy tablets they appear; My...
الصفحة 165 - Double consonants rare. — It cannot be too clearly understood that in words like pitted, stabbing, massy, &c., there is no real reduplication of the sounds of t, b, and s, respectively. Between the words pitted (as with the small-pox) and pitied (as being an object of pity) there is a difference in spelling only.

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