Short-hand for the people: a comprehensive system of stenography. To which is added, Short arthimetic1838 |
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Page 42 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would...
Page 28 - ... that is, from right to left instead of from left to right.
Page 7 - The art has never yet been simplified. The fact is, that none of the Stenographic writers have ever availed themselves of the variety which lies before them. * * * Having taken a wrong path, by adopting a deficient and ill-chosen alphabet, their difficulties increase at every step.
Page 11 - The numerous rules and exceptions that encumber every other system, and draw so largely on the memory of the writer, are entirely done away in this ; one general rule only, applying to, and pervading the whole: thus leaving the mind as free and undivided as in common writing.
Page 10 - Alphabet, and double letters : thus rendering the use of arbitraries unnecessary. 6th. Consequently, it depends less upon the memory than any other system extant, and is more easily acquired. It is as short without abbreviated words as some other systems are with them; and, at the pleasure of the writer, admits of being made much shorter.
Page 32 - ... The number and simple forms of the double consonants greatly increase our power of expressing readily the numerous triple, quadruple, and even quintuple consonants that abound in our language. Of these but little notice has been taken by former stenographers. The triplets usually given, are—chr, spr, str, and thr.
Page 10 - The total abolition of the very defective method of substituting one letter for another. Also, that of giving several meanings to the same mark. And the utter extinction of all ambiguity arising from those methods.
Page 29 - The student should learn these, as perfectly as he is now supposed to have learned those of the Alphabet and their combinations.
Page 7 - Of all the Stenographic systems that have hitherto been published, not one has ever come into general use.
Page 11 - So that, without having recourse to the usual omission of vowels, and superfluous consonants, a letter which would take an hour to write, in the common hand, may, by this method, be written in ten minutes—one-sixth of the time.