 | John Walker - 1797 - 608 ページ
...indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal part of the word in quiet poffeffion of what fcems its lawful property, (501) ; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language is full, affume a right of preferving their original accent, and fubject many of the words they bcftovr upon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 ページ
...accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal...quiet possession of what seems its lawful property ; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language is full, assume a right of preserving their... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 ページ
...seems to operate less in fixing the stress, than any other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed s . with perfect uniformity, leave the principal part...quiet possession of what seems its lawful property ; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language is full, assume a right of preserving their... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 ページ
...accentuation feems to operate lefs in fixing the ftrefs than any other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal part of the word in quiet pofleflion of what feems its lawful property ; but Latin and Gieek terminations, of which our language... | |
 | John Walker - 1807 - 1108 ページ
...accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any of the other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal...terminations, of which our language is full, assume a right of preserving their original accent, and subjecting many of the words they bestow upon us,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 ページ
...accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal...word in quiet possession of what seems its lawful properly ; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language is full, assume a right of preserving... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 642 ページ
...accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any of the other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal...quiet possession of what seems its lawful property ; but Latin and Greek terminations assume a right of preserving their original accent, and subject... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 352 ページ
...uniformity, leave the principal partoF the word in quiet possession of what seems its lawful property ; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language...assume aright of preserving their original accent, and subject almost every word they bestow upon us to their own classical laws. Accent, therefore, seems... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1811 - 322 ページ
...accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any other. Our own Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal...word in quiet possession of what seems its lawful 312 ENGLISH GRAMMAR. (Sect. I property; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language is... | |
 | Burgiss Allison - 1815 - 430 ページ
...of accentuation seems to operate less m fixing the stress than any of the other. Saxon terminations, indeed, with perfect uniformity, leave the principal...quiet possession of what seems its lawful property; but Latin and Greek terminations, of which our language is full, assume a right of preserving their... | |
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... necessarily the root, or body of the word. But as harmony of termination, frequently attracts the accent from the root to the branches of words, so the first and most natural law of accentuation seems to operate less in fixing the stress than any... 
