Ille Scriptor erit felix cui littera verbum eft, MANILIUS, Lib. 4. LONDO Printed for J. JOHNSON, No. 72, St. Paul's Church, 302. Yard. 1774. f. 30. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM MEREDITH, BARONET, COMPTROLLER OF THE HOUSEHOLD, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, THIS WORK I PREFACE. T may reasonably be expected, that fome general account be given at the entrance of this Work, of the New Scheme of Short-hand contained in it. I am fenfible indeed that an Author's description of his own performance is usually, and often perhaps not without reason, suspected by the Public: but the following general description of this Scheme of Swift-writing is literally true. Its alphabetical characters are neat and entirely diftinct, fo that in the quickest writing one will not be confounded with another; and they join with the greatest poffible ease, ele |