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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    progrefs which a fiudent will make by this method will in a fhort time be adonifhing. If a teacher vcere to undertake the inftru&i- on of feveral at once, which would indeed be mod advileable, it would be exceedingly pro¬ per to procure as many prints or drawings of common objects as could be had, and even of the lame objects in different podures and po¬ ll t ions, with the name and action written be¬ neath, and thefe arranged under different heads according to their relation to each other. The walls of the room might be covered with them, fcreens, port-folios and books alfo con¬ tain others, to which they might conftantly have accefs. Colours ought alfo to be painted in fquares, with their names attached, after them the (hades and the various colours ob¬ tained by mixing Ample bodies. They ought alfo to go through various courfes of natural hiftory, natural and experimental philofophy, including chemiftry, by which they will fee the *ri extenfive variety that even artificial mixtures and combinations of bodies will produce. The