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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    To the Citizens of North America* My dear countrymen, J N prefenting to you this {mall work, I feek lefs the gratification of obtaining your favour, than of rendering myfelfufeful; and if the be-' nefits I contemplate ftiould be derived from my labour, I {hall enjoy a fatisfadion which death only can terminate. By the grandeur of charader that has fo long diftinguifhed you, and by which you have, in many inftances, been carried over ancient pre¬ judices to the full attainment of perfedion, a hope is infpired that your exertions will Hill be direded to lead the minds of others from the influence of erroneous cuftom to the adoption of juft principles. You have already taught a race of men to rejed; the impoiition of ty¬ ranny, and have fet a brilliant example, which all will follow, when reafon has affumed her fway. You have correded the dangerous dodrines of European powers, corred now the languages you have imported, for the oppref- fed of various nations knock at your gates, and defire