. An exegesis of English syntax . he sci-ence which the system is designed to develop : for, as arecognition of the person intended, depends upon the cor^respondence of the profile to the face which it is intendedto portray, so an apprehension of the principles intended,depends upon the agreement between the technical termsemployed, and the principles to be expressed. If the pic-ture is not a just presentation of some particular person, itwill be hard to apply it with any degree of certainty. And,if the picture is not sufficiently descriptive of him for whomit is designed, no one will be able
. An exegesis of English syntax . he sci-ence which the system is designed to develop : for, as arecognition of the person intended, depends upon the cor^respondence of the profile to the face which it is intendedto portray, so an apprehension of the principles intended,depends upon the agreement between the technical termsemployed, and the principles to be expressed. If the pic-ture is not a just presentation of some particular person, itwill be hard to apply it with any degree of certainty. And,if the picture is not sufficiently descriptive of him for whomit is designed, no one will be able by the picture itself todesignate him for whom it is drawn. In the usual systemof English grammar, the whole seems inverted, or con-fused: the picture of a man is put for a horse ; and the 34 ARTICULATION. picture of a horse for a man ! ! And in many instances theterms used stand for nothing which can be found within theentire range of the science, any more than does the follow-ing cut stand for some being in the animal kingdom !. The word, articulation, is derived from articulus, ajoint. The very name applied to the process of formingvocal words, sets out with the idea that the sounds inspeech, like the limbs of animals, are furnished \v\\h , as there are no joints to sounds, articulation is cer-tainly a misnomer. Articulation does not divide a soundinto parts, as joints divide a jinger into parts. Nor doesarticulation connect sounds, as joints connect the parts of afinger. Articulation is a modification of sounds, a changingof their forms, so to speak, and not a division of one soundinto two, or more sounds. The idea that articulation dividesa sound into parts is certainly a mistaken notion which isfounded in an erroneous view of the nature of the an attempt to illustrate the operation by comparing itto the action of joints in dividing a limb of an animal intoparts, is calculated to produce darkness instead of light. The numerous applications which thi
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