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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:THE RIDPATH LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES ::..- A Biographical And Bibliographical Summary Of The World's Most Eminent Authors, Including The Choicest Extracts And Masterpieces From Their Writings, Comprising The Best Features Of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably THE GUERNSEY COLLECTION THE DE PUY COLLECTION THE RIDPATH COLLECTION ALL CAREFULLY REVISED AND ARRANGED BY A CORPS OF THE MOST CAPABLE SCHOLARS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, A.M., LL.D. EDITOR OP THE ARENA, AUTHOR OF " RIDPATH's HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," " CYCLOPEDIA OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY," " GREAT RACES OF MANKIND," ETC., ETC. VOLUME I NEW YORK THE GLOBE PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYKICHT, 1898, By JAMES S. BARCUS TMOW DIRCCTONV PH1HTINO AND BOOKBJMDINQ COHfANY NEW VOflK chapter{Section 4X KEY TO PRONUNCIATION. as in fat, man, pang. as in fate, mane, dale. as in far, father, guard. as in fall, talk. as in ask, fast, ant. as in fare. as in met, pen, bless. as in mete, meet. as in her, fern. as in pin, it. as in pine, fight, file. as in not, on, frog. as in note, poke, floor. as in move, spoon. as in nor, song, off. as in tub. as in mute, acute. as in pull. German ti, French u. as in oil, joint, boy. as in pound, proud. A single dot under a vowel in an unaccented syllable indicates its ab- breviation and lightening, without absolute loss of its distinctive quality. Thus: 2 as in prelate, courage. C as in ablegate, episcopal. 9 as in abrogate, eulogy, democrat. Q as in singular, education. A double dot under a vowel in an unaccented syllable indicates that, even in the mouths of the best speakers, its sound is variable to, and in ordinary ut terance actually becomes, the ...
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