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Singular Words.
There is a word in the English language of five syllables , frorn which , if one syllable be deducted , no syllable remains—Monosyllable . The two longest . monosyllables in our language are strength and Strei gbt , and the very longest word bonorificability . But this is an obsolete phrase , and is not to be found in any vocabulist I know of , Bailey exceptedwho has borrowed it from the Latinin which
lan-, , . guage it has a letter more , viz . bonorificabilitudinitas . Heroine is , perhaps , as peculiar a word as any in our language- ; the two first letters of it are male , the three first female , the four iirst a brave man , and the whole word a brave woman . It runs thus , be , her , hero , heroine . We have a term for a beggar , which may be divided without the
transposition of a single letter , with only the addition of an apostrophe , so as to make a complete simple sentence ; and such a sentence as a person of this description may generally address himself withal : the term is mendicant , and the sentence arising from its division—mend I can't , which itiost of them may too truly assert . These words deserve remarktartarpapaand murmurin
En-, , , , glish , toto in Latin , and Berber in the Turkish language ; because they each of them are the same syllable twice repeated . We have several dissyllable words , which read the same backwards as forwards , such as aga , ala , lesel , refer , & c . But we have very few which constitute a different word by a reverse reading ; there are theselevereverrepelseverwhich read backwards make revel
, , , , , , reve , leper , reves ; and cera , by dissolving the diphthong , when retrogradely read , will be area . Of trisyllables there can ' t be expected so many ; animal it is true will be found to make the Latin , and , by adoption , English word lamina . A DIARIAN .. -
The Iron Mask.
THE IRON MASK .
THE mystery which has enveloped the story of the man with the iron mask , whose long imprisonment Voltaire noticed in his Age of Louis the XlVth , is now cleared up to the satisfaction of most people in France . It . seems that he was neither the Count de Vermandois , nor the Duke of Monmouth , nor any of the other Princes or Noblemen whose names have been mentioned ; but an elder brother of Louis ,
the XlVth , by Anne of Austria , consort of Louis XHIth . It appears that he was the fruit of an illicit amour with the Queen ; some say with the Duke of Buckingham ; but though illegitimate , and certainly not the son of Louis the XHIth ( which no . one believes Louis the XlVth himself to have been ) he mig ht have raised pretensions to the crown ; as being born in wedlock , there was the presumption of legitimacy in his favour , till the contrary was proved . Voltaire , though he leaves the matter in the dark , ivas well acquainted with the rank and quality of the illustrious prisoner ; but
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Singular Words.
There is a word in the English language of five syllables , frorn which , if one syllable be deducted , no syllable remains—Monosyllable . The two longest . monosyllables in our language are strength and Strei gbt , and the very longest word bonorificability . But this is an obsolete phrase , and is not to be found in any vocabulist I know of , Bailey exceptedwho has borrowed it from the Latinin which
lan-, , . guage it has a letter more , viz . bonorificabilitudinitas . Heroine is , perhaps , as peculiar a word as any in our language- ; the two first letters of it are male , the three first female , the four iirst a brave man , and the whole word a brave woman . It runs thus , be , her , hero , heroine . We have a term for a beggar , which may be divided without the
transposition of a single letter , with only the addition of an apostrophe , so as to make a complete simple sentence ; and such a sentence as a person of this description may generally address himself withal : the term is mendicant , and the sentence arising from its division—mend I can't , which itiost of them may too truly assert . These words deserve remarktartarpapaand murmurin
En-, , , , glish , toto in Latin , and Berber in the Turkish language ; because they each of them are the same syllable twice repeated . We have several dissyllable words , which read the same backwards as forwards , such as aga , ala , lesel , refer , & c . But we have very few which constitute a different word by a reverse reading ; there are theselevereverrepelseverwhich read backwards make revel
, , , , , , reve , leper , reves ; and cera , by dissolving the diphthong , when retrogradely read , will be area . Of trisyllables there can ' t be expected so many ; animal it is true will be found to make the Latin , and , by adoption , English word lamina . A DIARIAN .. -
The Iron Mask.
THE IRON MASK .
THE mystery which has enveloped the story of the man with the iron mask , whose long imprisonment Voltaire noticed in his Age of Louis the XlVth , is now cleared up to the satisfaction of most people in France . It . seems that he was neither the Count de Vermandois , nor the Duke of Monmouth , nor any of the other Princes or Noblemen whose names have been mentioned ; but an elder brother of Louis ,
the XlVth , by Anne of Austria , consort of Louis XHIth . It appears that he was the fruit of an illicit amour with the Queen ; some say with the Duke of Buckingham ; but though illegitimate , and certainly not the son of Louis the XHIth ( which no . one believes Louis the XlVth himself to have been ) he mig ht have raised pretensions to the crown ; as being born in wedlock , there was the presumption of legitimacy in his favour , till the contrary was proved . Voltaire , though he leaves the matter in the dark , ivas well acquainted with the rank and quality of the illustrious prisoner ; but