Cadmus: or, a treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak / by William Thornton.

  • Thornton, William, 1759-1828.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Cadmus: or, a treatise on the elements of written language, illustrating, by a philosophical division of speech, the power of each character, thereby mutually fixing the orthography and orthoepy. With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb, to speak / by William Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRIZE DISSERTATION, WHICH WAS HONORED WITH THE MAGELLANIC GOLD MEDAL, BY THJC American Philosophical Society, January, 1793. C A D M U S> OR, A * * TREATISE on the ELEMENTS ° f Written Language, , lllujlraiing, by aphilofophical divifion of SPEECH, the power of each char after, thereby mutually fxing the Orthography and Orthoepy. • * • !■_ - « CUR NE8CIRE, PUDENS PRAVE, qUAM DISCERE MALO ? Eor. Ars. Pod. V. 88, With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or - and confequently dumb5 to speak. By WILLIAM THORNTON, M. D. Member of the Societies of Scots antiquaries of Edinburg® and Perth; the Medical Society, and the Society.of Natu¬ ral Hist, of Edin : the American Philosofhical Society, &c. PHIL A D E L P H I A: PRINTED BY R. AITKEN & SON, fqr tuf. Author, and sold ftp by J. DEBRETT, BOOKS ELLER y LONDON. M.DCC.XC1II,