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4441. LANGUAGE (Greek), Pronunciation.—[further continued] .

I have little hope of the recovery of the ancient pronunciation of that
finest of human languages, but still I rejoice at
the attention the subject seems to excite
with you, because it is an evidence that our
country begins to have a taste for something
more than merely as much Greek as will pass
a candidate for clerical ordination.—
To John Brazier. Washington ed. vii, 131.
(P.F.,,
18191819)gt;