his subject is Walker's
Critical Pronouncing Dictionary. The "Principles of English Pronunciation,"
which this author has furnished, occupy fifty-six closely-printed octavo
pages, and are still insufficient for the purpose of teaching our orthoepy
by rule. They are, however, highly valuable, and ought to be consulted by
every one who wishes to be master of this subject. In its vocabulary, or
stock of words, this Dictionary is likewise deficient. Other lexicographers
have produced several later works, of high value to the student; and,
though no one has treated the subject of pronunciation so elaborately as
did Walker, some may have given the results of their diligence in a form
more useful to the generality of their consulters. Among the good ones, is
the Universal and Critical Dictionary of Joseph E. Worcester.

OBS. 2.--Our modern accentuation of Greek or Latin words is regulated
almost wholly by the noted rule of Sanctius, which Walker has copied and
Englished in the Introduction to his Key, and of which the following is a
new version or paraphrase, never before printed:

RULE FOR THE ACCENTING OF LATIN.

_One_ syllable has stress of course,
And words of _two_ the _first_ enforce;
In _longer_ words the _penult_ guides,
Its _quantity_ the point decides;
If _long_, 'tis _there_ the accent's due,
If _short_, accent the _last but two_;
For accent, in a Latin word,
Should ne'er go higher than the third.

This rule, or the substance of it, has become very important by long and
extensive use; but it should be observed, that stress on monosyllables is
more properly _emphasis_ than _accent_; and that, in English, the accent
governs quantity, rather than quantity the accent.

SECTION III.--OF ELOCUTION.

Elocution is the graceful utterance of words that are arranged into
sentences, and that form discourse.

Elocution requires a knowledge, and right application, of emphasis, pauses,
inflections, and tones.

ARTICLE I--OF EMPHASIS.

EMPHASIS is the peculiar stress of voice which we lay upon some particular
word or words in a sentence, which are thereby distinguished from the rest
as being more especially significant.[473]

As accent enforces a syllable, and gives character to a word; so emphasis
distinguishes a word, and often determines the import of a sentence. The
right placing of accent, in the utterance of words, is therefore not more
important, than the right placing of e