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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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A man in a Roman helmet (or Minerva?) leads two children up a hill towards two temples; representing the learning of words and spelling. Engraving by W.C. Wrankmore after T. Stothard.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.Date: 1836Reference: 28973i