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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THEORY OF EMPHATIC INFLEXION. TTAving thus endeavoured to give a clear and diftindt idea of the two different kinds of emphafis, and attempted to prove, that emphafis, properly fo called, always fuppofes contradiflinction or antithefis, either expreifed or underftood; it will now be neceffary to fhow that every emphatic word, properly fo called, is as much dif- tinguifhed by the inflexion it adopts, as by the force with which it is pronounced. We have feen already that where there is no emphafis, the moft fignificant words in a fentence adopt a different inflexion of voice for the fake of variety and harmony: for provided the fentenee reads well it is of no confequence on which words the different inflexions are placed. Thus in the following fentence: Exercife and temperance' ftrengthen' the conftitutionN. In this fentence, I fay, the words temperance and ftrengthen have the rifmg, and exercife and conjlitution the falling inflexion; but if this fentence were lengthened by the addition of another member, we fhould find the inflexions fhift their places. Thus in the following fentence: Exercife/ and temperance ftrengthen the conftitution/ and fweeten/ the enjoyments/ of life. Here, I fay, the words exercife and conftl- tutlon have the rifing, and temperance and Jtrengthen the falling inflexion, as moft agreeable to the harmony of the whole fentence: but if a word really emphatical had been in the firft fentence, no additional member would have obliged it to alter its inflexion. Thus in the following fentence: Exercife and temperance/ ftrengthen/ even an indifferent confiitution. Here the word indifferent, which is really emphatical, has the falling inflexion; andthis inflexion it will ftill preferve though we lengthen the fentence in imitation of. the forme...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459045002 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459045009 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 200 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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