Excerpt from The Rhythmical Reader: Being a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, Presented Under a System of Notation Which Exhibits the Measure of Speech, the Quantities of Syllables, and the Just Admeasurement of Pauses The Tonics consist of different sorts of vocality, and are the most important agents in intonation. They are usually denominated vowel sounds. Their num ber is fifteen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.