DESIGNED AS A

COURSE OF PRACTICE

ON THE

RUDIMENTS OF GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC.

BY

WILLIAM RUSSELL,

EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION,

(FIRST SERIES.)

BOSTON:
WHITTEMORE, NILES, AND HALL.
MILWAUKIE: A. WHITTEMORE AND CO.

18 5 6.

DUCATION LIBE

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

WILLIAM RUSSELL,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa

chusetts.

IN PREPARATION,
RHETORICAL PRAXIS.
A Series of Exercises for Advanced Students in Rhetoric, by

the Author of the present Manual.

Education

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INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.

PLAN OF THE COURSE.

EXERCISE I. -ORTHOEPY.

Introductory Explanations.

Forms of Exercise.

Suggestions to Teachers.

Suggestions to Students.

Current Errors in Pronunciation.

Rules of Orthoëpy.

The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin

words.

The Authority of Walker, as an Ortho-

ëpist.

Words peculiarly liable to wrong Ac-

cent, in negligent usage.

Words on the Pronunciation of which

the weight of authority is nearly bal-

anced.

EXERCISE II. - ORTHOGRAPHY.

Forms of Exercise.

Suggestions.

Words of variable Orthography.

EXERCISE III. — SYLLABICATION.

Introductory Explanations.

Exercise.

Rules on Written Syllabication.

Suggestions.

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