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THE
WHEELING REPOSITORY.
(Vol. 1.) Thursday, i4th May, 1807. (No. 11.)
Having no disposition to engross too large a portion of the Repository with my Sonoskriturr.l lucubrations, the following
little piece shall close them. It goes in Spanish, with the scheme, adapted to that tongue. For my own part, I should he
willing to he occasionally entertained by some scrap done into Sonoskrit, from one or other of the modem languages, for
the purpose of discovering how far this method of -writing sounds is defective.
However impracticable it may be to introduce this mode of spelling into general use, with reference to the languages
of Europe, I am still of opinion that it would, if adopted in private tuition, much facilitate the acquisition of them, hor,'
with respect to the difficulty of learning any language which is written and spoken very differently, as is the case with the
English and the French, it mav he safely said, that it is always necessary, upon the old plan, to learn two,languages instead
of one.— I have known a foreigner who had taken in, at the eye, the English language in such a manner as to he aide to
write it with ease and to b> come well versed in ur literature, without being able audibly to ask for a drink of water, so as
to be understood. And on the other hand, instances every where abound of those whose ears have been broken to all the
words of a language, when pronounced, without being able to read them when written.
But it is not my intention to exhaust myself in fruitless lamentations on this subject. My concluding hint shall he con
fined to that use to which it may he applied, without opposing our long settled and perhaps immoveable, prejudices.—
The languages of m.inv of the Indian tribes are, hitherto, but little known to us. Where they are spoken they will, occa
| a ion ally, be learned, bi/ the ear, by such people a3 visit them. Now how well, in every respect, would it be, both as it re
spects the learner and the language, in the beginning of his study, to fasten upon paper the words, which float about in the
air, by means of appropriate and adequate characters ! The learner, in this way, would have to get the language but once;
and as fast as he learned it, it would be so fixed, and so easily legible by the natives themselves, that a door of communi
cation by writing would be speedily open. It is easy to comprehend that a few months, employed in this kind of reciprocal
tfii .on, would make us and them better acquainted with one another, than many years of close application and wearisome
ness, in the common wav, can possibly accomplish.—I forbear to speak of the barbarous method which at present prevails
in the writing of Indian words by Europeans, who trave l amongst them, and who find it necessary to write them according
to the orthography of that language which they themselves speak. This practice has been sufficiently exposed, by Dr.
Morse, to make it appear truly contemptible,—-yet has no remedy been suggested, to cure the evil 1
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Fix’d sounds, aw uh ah eh ay ih t*e oh auh uh eu
, f \aiv stm rt/t fret Incc 1/p peep tune fog noon few
English. jc sxn rat. fret lcs lip pip ton fag nun f\
„ u C horror todos m<7S esto era b/en h/jo solo con hiz yj/go *
Spanish. ^ urrurr todaxs m?.s esto era bien xhho solo Ion lua yago
El Leon vencido por el hombre.
Uierto artifice pinto
Una lucha, en que valiente
Un hombre tan solamente
A un horrible Leon vencio,
Otro Leon, que el quadro vio,
Sin preguntar por su autor
En tono dtspretia ior
Dixo : bien se d-‘xa ver,
Que es pintar como querer,
Y no fue Leon el Pintor.
[Satnanicgo.]
1 or the Wheeling depository.
It is the duty of every friend to humanity, who sees his fellow-citizens running into error,to grvefhctn a friendly caution.
If they receive it, he rentiers mem a service ; and if they neglect it, he only discharges a duty which is incumbent on him
as a well-wisher to the community. -/?.*
The pernicious practice ol intoxication is becoming so common, that $Ociety is robbed of many useful members, and
frequently ha s burthens kit upon it, in consequence ol this grow ing evil* When a p**ut, who has been addicted to tlua
U Leon venqidjo porr el omt>re.
Qierto artifiqe pinto
Una luiua, cn ke valiente
Un ombre tan solamentc
A un orrible Leon venqio,
O; to Leon, ke el kwadro vio,
S’n preguntar porr su awtor,
En tono d ^espreqiadaor
Daiho : bien se dacha ver
Ke cs pintar como kercr,
I no fuc Leon cl Pintor.
7*_a!.- Tin_
[ i ransiauon.j
The Lion vanquished by the man.
On canvas once a certain artist drew
Between a Lion and a man a fight;
A fierce one, doubtless,’twas ; for, to the view,
The man appeared victorious, by his might:
A waggish Lion, passing, saw the sight,
And cried—“These attitudes the work-?na« shew*
For had a Lion had the job to do,
lie would have changed the circiunstances quite*
Noval.