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.
- William Thornton
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Unavoidable hajte in pajjing the following Trcatifes through the prcfs, has occafionedfeveral inaccuracies, the principal of which are corrcEled in this table of ERRATA. Acldrefs, line J. In satisfaL fun, crafe l and infert K. 1. II. For OVir, read, 00 van 18 Eor folio, rtWfolo. 1. 20 For deendjras, r^Wdeendj nras Page viline II.For thelafs,put z. 1.16. Between idooslia/;^ alaid, infert a hyphen* Cadmus. Page 50. 1. 14. for ‘^put E. p. 52. I. 3. [from bottom'] in pinTf dele T« p. 56.1. 18. For 5 and (Samech) t>, put K and (Caph)^. 1.22. ^therefore. In the table of Sounds, firft horiz : line, ftrike out all the examples but ye, yi; for v can only be ufed before and has the fame relation to 7 ' it that w has to it. Erafe them alfo thoughout the work. p. 6$ 1. 14 For vou, read vnu—-for uizzard, read uiz3[rd« j1 1. 16.--—feu,-uisjrt. ■ y>. 66. I. 13. For boe, raz^booO. 1. 14. poth—pooth. p. 67 1. 20. For the place, r^Wtheir refidente. p. 75. 1. 14. For flourz, read^wcz.line 15foruiQreadmit 1. 17* Comma after opwz, read oopw/. For kovart, read kavart. 1. 18. Comma after trakts. p. 76 1. 9 For e-bl-nes, mn/ee-bl-nes* p. 78 1. 12. Infert as, before arbitrary, p. 82 1. 17. For the only modes, mjiisthe only mode, p. 83 I.14. Before written, infert be. p. 90 laf line—After and, infert we fhould. p, 91 two laft lines—Fur Komma, read Komalfemikoloc, readfemikooloQ» p. yifirjl line—Fur kolon, read koolon. p. 95 line 14. For when, read by the. p. 96. 1. 2 for have, readhzi* p. IOI 1. II. For is, read it would be. p. 104 I.5. Dele which are. p. 106 1. 13 for in, read into. p. 107 1. 3. [from bottojnJ for will, read would, p. 109 1. 8. Fur was, read were. N. B. There are feveral inaccuracies in the pun&uation, See. not noticed above, fince they do not materially affedt the fenfe. The Specimen of the reformed mode will %>y how much i& U tta Jgngiifi, by counting the lines*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794353_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
