CIiAP'ï'ETi XIi', and as infear God, honour the king. A $ntthis is used only in writing, not in printing; and it is called interlining. It may not be amiss to add here, that crooked line which is usually called braces, ti` whose design is to couple two or more words or lines together, that have relation to one thing; thus, long a short The letter A has , sound. a broad And it saves the writer the trouble of repeating the same word, or words. It is used also sometimes in poetry, when three lines have the same rhyme or ending; as, " Not all the skill that mortals have, '4 Can stop the hand of death, or save )} " Their fellow-mortals from the grave." There arealso some other marks that belong to single words, and not to sentences ; but these are seldom used except in par- ticular books, especially such as treat of grammar, spelling, poesy, &c. namely, Dzalysi3 over two vowels, to shew they must be proa pounced in distinct syllables, as Raphael. Circumflex A over a long syllable, as _Euphrates, Thessolo- pica, Aristobúlus. Accent t to sllewwhere the stress or force of the sound must he placed, as cónstant, cóntempt. A double accent " shews the following consonant is pro- nounced double, as bü -nish. Cher. XIV.Directionsfor Reading. $EFORI; I give any directions to scholars, I would take the freedom here to propose one to the teacher; and that is, That what lessons soever he appoints the child to spell or read, he should sometimes spell or read that very lesson over before the child ; whether it be the tables of syllables, or words, or naines, or verses in the bible or testament ; or whether it be a news- paper, an oration, a dialogue, poetry, &c. And let him observe the stops, read slow, give the proper accents,tlistinctly to every word, and every part of the sentence. Children that have a tolerable ear, will take in the sounds well, and imitate their master's voice, and be secured against an ill turn of voice, VOL. vi. I, '
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