Phonetic syllabication : the cure for oratorical and other defects of speech / by Alexander Melville Bell.

  • Bell, Alexander Melville, 1819-1905.
Date:
[1896]
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Credit: Phonetic syllabication : the cure for oratorical and other defects of speech / by Alexander Melville Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not ere-a-ted by a dis-play of gli-(t)te-ring ar-mour, the rush of ad-verse ba-(t)tal-ions, the sin-king and ri-sing of pe-(n) 11011s, the hight, the pur-suit, and the vic-to-ry; but by their e-(f)fect in ad-van-cing or re-tar-ding human know-ledge, in o-ver-throw-ing or e-stab-li-shing des-po-tism, in ex-ten-ding or de-stroy-ing human ha-(p)pi-ness. When the tra-ve(l)ler pau-ses on the plains of Ma-ra- thon, what are the e-mo-tions which strong-ly a-gi-tate his breast? What is that glo-ri-ous re-co-(l)lec-tion that thrills through his frame and su-(f)fu-ses his eyes? Not, I i-ma-gine, that Gre-cian skill and Gre-cian va-lour were here most sig-na-(l)ly dis-played; but that Gi :eece her-self was saved. It is be-cause to this spot and to the e-vent which has ren¬ dered it i-(m)mor-tal, lie re-fers all the suc¬ ceeding glo-ries of the re-pub-lic. It is be¬ cause if that day had gone o-ther-wise Greece her-self had pe-rished. It is be-cause he per-ceives that her phi-lo-so-pliers and o-ra- tors, her po-ets and pain-ters, lier sculp-tors