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* leyR ^^ tei ^ ltiHhigr is s& formed as * p b ^ kl * rajrs ojieti ^ and to resist compressf 6 h * , at the same tints it h quite flexifele ; feyewl ^ ves way to air the beddings
df ^ hfe neck ; had it not been so we sSem ! 8 have been in perpetual hazard of ^ tf&ngutertion . The passage to the s * 6 tiiach , on the contrary , being interred only for occasional use , has its sipeS aiways collapsed , unless when distended by the passing of food . The lvtftfgs are two cellular bags for containing air ; they are situated in the chest , arlq both open into the bottom of the Mildpipe . ¦ -f ' n ' -the act of inspiration the air dflates the lungs ; these , like bellows , fbarce it tack in expiration into the i ^ ittiipipe- * here the air is straitened itfits passage , and made . to rush with
fo ^ ce * sdong the tube towards its upper end , Where it is variously modulated , arid the sound of the voice is produced . Ill articulation the voice is required to pass through the mouth , ' where it is cfififerently modified by the ^ action of
the tongue , which is either pushed against the teeth or upward against trie palate , detaining it in its passage or permitting it to flow freely by contract ing or dilating the mouth . It has been remarked of the tongue , that it is tjke only muscle of the body under the coiitroul of the will , which is not
wearied by incessant use-Speech is a high and distinguishing prerogative of man . By this noble faculty we are enabled to express ail «> ur feelings and inclinations ; to eom-£ punicate our thoughts , and blend our energies , our kndwledge and discoveries , with those of others . In
writtea ' language , form and permanence are given to evanescent Sounds : the itjeas ' and the improvements of one age are transmitted to a succeed ing one : life superior acquirements of one country are scattered over distant regions , ancfkpowledge , civilization and happiness diffused fur and wide .
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On reference to the Diversions ^ Purley , " Vol . k p . 19 O , &c , I . W . , and such other of your readers as , irc fond of language , may find a c ^ eaVflSj ^ , copious exposition of the word Xui , Lest , however , 1 . "W . .. sjipuid fly o ^ BaVe that inestimable worlc at fiancT , tonich
" change of subject , or an opposition t § what weht before . He , however modestly suspects he may be mistake *} and asks for information . ^ . f
it is evident he has never read , I will endeavour to give him in a / 4 ew words a sketch of the learned authors luminous view of the subject . He $ ay § f 'it was the corrupt use of this oA word ( but ) in modefn English , foxtw < ik words ( bot and but ) ^ originally ( in ^ pe Anglo-Saxon ) very different in sig ^ w fication , which misled John Locke F and which puzzled Johnson in hisDtc * tionary , where he has numbered up eighteen different significations of the word . " The first mentioned but or hqt is the imperative of hotan , and answers to sed in Latin and mais in French , and this appears to be the hut to which I . W . has confined his definition ^ or
description—the other hut is derived from bute , or hutati , or _ be-utan , and answers to nisi in Latio—** this last but ( as distinguished from bot ) and without have both exactly the sa * pe meaning ; that is , in modern English ,-neither more nor le . s than be-out . '
It is this last but , the want of th £ knowledge of which has occasionedvdW the perplexity both in the minjd oi your correspondent and also of man ? of his more learned predecessors , and which knowledge was •* never cleapijr developed but by that main whose ph ** lological labours are an honour to h »
memory , and whose valuable pape * D having been committed to the flaaw » by himself in a ^ fil of spleen , are an in reparable loss to the republic of let tew and operate as a serious visitation of thd injuries he suffered , on generations ye * unborn—a retaliation of injustice , not on those who committed it , but 69
innocent and unconscious liiquuersi The omission of negation before bi& is one of the most blameable and cot * rapt abbreviations of construction uar our language . In the exaiwpl ^> ^ f intent is but to play , was formerly * written , my intent is not but to P ^* Mo ^ t of the instances which 1 . wfi hds ^ yeu of the impropertUse of > tb * wordM exhibit a pcxlcct rtttundaitcf
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'SIR , YOU R cor respondent V W ., p . 93 , has quoted passages from several authors , in which he conceives the word tut has been improperly used ; and in © r ^ ler to give his notion of the meaning bf i £ e word , he says , " Thi ^ f is a conjunction , which when vri meet with it i < $ * * k md of stc ^ p to the tcn | P jmW Wpare ;* the mind to e ^|> ecr »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/16/
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