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BIOGRAPHY, AND REMAINS OF EMINENT REPORT OF CHEMISTRY, &c.

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MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. 271.]

AUGUST 1, 1815.

[1 of Vol. 40.

When the Mouthly Magazine was first planned, two leading ideas occupied the minds of those who undertook to conduct it. The first was, that of laying before the Public various objects of information and discussion, both amusing and instructive; the second was that of lending aid to the propagation of those liberal principles respecting some of the most important concerns of mankind, which have bern either desented or virulently opposed by other Periodical Miscellanies; but upon the manly and rational support of which the Fame and Fate of the age must ultimately depend.——————PREFACE TO MONTHLY MAS. VOL. I.

As long as those who write are ambitious of making Converts, and of giving their Opinions a Maximum of Influence and Celebrity, the most extensively circulated Miscellany will repay, with the greatest Effect, the Curiosity of those who read, whether it be for Amuse. ment or for Instruction.-JOHNSON.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

SIR,

Where a letter or particle serves only to breed confusion it ought to be retrenched, unless that retrenchment render the meaning of the word equivocal.

The Italian and Castilian languages owe much of their construction and constitution to the Latin, yet they do not imitate the Latin orthography as we do, but scholastically admit no more letters

SINCE I wrote to you last, I have to acknowledge the beneficial counsel and co-operation of many learned men ; and I thank you for allowing the columns of your Magazine to continue recruiting for the service and the security of my dictionary. In the province of literature, wrangling and feud were never in their words than they sound. I am more general than at this new era. Every confident, sir, that nothing would conduce pen carries a warlike attitude, and the so much to the beauty and security of restoration and future maintenance of our language, or entitle it to the esteem order and good government can be ex- and confidence of foreigners, as a coalition pected only from enthroned rule and so- of writers befriending one uncomplicated ber authority, holding a banner or decretal, system of orthography. Having arranged that may attract a steady belief and an and accommodated such a one on the associated allegiance. A laudable spirit principle of analogy, I hope you will allow of inquiry has three centuries actuated it room in your next Magazine. That it the orthographist, yet, hitherto, little has will be subject to spurious remark and been done toward bringing to precision astringent cavil by the cursory inspector those principles of spelling which I am so desirous to enforce upon general observance. I have never had the satisfaction of being acquainted with a pen-man who could boast of precision and completeness in his orthography, nor have I been able to comprehend any principle on which a writer's practice is erected, nor any rule to which he has resolutely studied an actual conformity. Every word should be rendered agreeable and interesting to the eye, soft and labent to the tongue, and rich in concord and tone. Many words of great dignity and sterling worth have been discharged, and considered unfit for service, on account of their antiquated stiffness, their Dutch-bellied plenitude, their abraded frame, or their unauspicious influence on the ear, which might be judiciously appointed to the administration of thought and the republic of literature, by the ablation of a senseless prefix, a supernumerary consoBant, or the restoration of an exiled vowel. B

is probable, and to meet and cope with
controversialists in the area of your work
will be preferable than to bring up my
defence after my dictionary is published.
A looker-on sometimes discerns the con-
dition of the game, and discriminates
quicker than the player himself; and, if
any of your able writers will examine
and frankly give me their opinion of the
following nomenclature, I shall esteem it
a great compliment, whether publicly
communicated, or privately to the care of
your printer, Mr. Adlard, 23, Bartholo-
mew-close.
JOHN PYTCHES.

Mr. Pytches' Orthographical System.

Aaronnic

Ab (yarn)
Ab-wool

A-back
Ab-aft

The Abaisseur
To Ab-alienate
Abandonary
The Abaptista
Ab-articulation

not Aaronical. 2. 84,

Abb. 18. 57.
Abb-wool.

Aback. 33. 36.
Abaft. 33. 36.
Abbaisseur. 57.
Abalienate. 33.

Abandonery. 94.

Abaptiston.

Abarticulation. 33.

MONTHLY MAG. No. 272.

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