A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering / Henry McCormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering / Henry McCormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a narrative, we deviate in our con- duct as well as in words. In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular defi- nition, as often as a man varies the signification of any term. E-gress, egredior, I step forth. The opposite to ingress. Pro-gress, progredior, I move forward. — Arithmetical progression is a se- ries of quantities proceeding by con- tinued equal differences, either in- creasing or decreasing. Thus, Increasing 1, 8, 5, 7, 9, &c. or Decreasing 21, 18, 15, 12, 9, &c. where the former progression increases continually by the common difference' 2, and the latter series or progression decreases continually by the common difference 3.—Geometrical progres- sion is a series of quantities proceed- ing in the same continual ratio or pro- portion, either increasing or decreas- ing ; or it is a series of quantities that are continually proportional; or which increase by one common multiplier, or decrease by one common divisor ; which common multiplier or divisor is called the common ratio. As, Increasing 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, &c. Decreasing 81, 27, 9, 3, 1, &c. where the former progression increases by the common multiplier 2, and the latter decreases by the common divi- sor 3. Thus it will be seen that arith- metical progression is effected by ad- dition and subtraction, and geometri- cal progression by multiplication and division. Trans-gress, from transgredior, I pass over; is only used in a moral sense, to signify the act of going farther than we ought. When the passions are not kept under controul they cause men to commit various transgressions. Trespass, which signifies a passing beyond, being a change of trans and pass, is a species of offence which pe- culiarly applies to the lands of indi- viduals. Sincere, from sincerus, an epithet ap- plied to pure honey, as being sine cerd, without wax ; it was after- wards understood to mean without fraud or deceit.—Sincerity implies an honesty and openness in our dealings with our fellow beings, and, extends to the springs and motives of our ac- tions, as well as the actions them- selves ; to our word3 and to our thoughts. Sinecure, from sine, without, and cura, care or trouble. An office which has revenue without any employment. Soliloquy, from solus, alone, and loquor, I speak. A reasoning or discourse which a man holds with himself. Solstice, from sol, the sun, and stare, to stand. Solstice is the term applied to the time when the sun is at the greatest distance from the equator, thus called because he then appears to stand still. The solstices are two in each year; the estival (or summer) solstice, and the hyemal (or winter) solstice. The summer solstice is when the sun is in the tropic of Cancer, which is on the 21st of June, when he makes the longest day. The win- ter solstice is when he enters the first degree of Capricorn, which is the 22nd of December, when he makes the shortest day to the northern he- misphere. CRITICAL NOTICES OF THE STUDENT'S MANUAL AND SEQUEL. If it were known how much real information a person may pain from this ' Manual, and how much more he may appear to possess by making himseif acquainted with it, there would be very few persons without it. To those who have not had the advantage of a clas- sical education, and others who are entering on its rudiments, it cannot be too strongly re- commended. Ingenuity in the plan, good taste in the execution, and utility in its objects, are the characteristics of this cheap and clever little work.—The Literary Chronicle, No. 103. We rejoice to see that the Author has executed the present work [the Etymological Dic- tionary of Words from the Latin] with diligence, fidelity, and ability, and thus produced one of those small but eminently useful works from which the rising generation derive such in- calculable advantages. From the brief examples we have given, our readers cannot fail to perceive the excelleucy of the plan on which this little book is constructed, and to appreciate how very useful it is calculated to be.—Literary Gazette. For farther notices sec Evangelical Magazine; The London Literary Gazette: Monthly Magazine; *' New Monthly Magazine; *' Eclectic Review; Christian'* Pocket Magazine.