Short writing, began by nature compliated [sic] by art manifesting the irregularity of placing the artificial before the natural of symbolical contractions: and proposing a method more suited to sense, and more fully answering y [sic] requisited of a compleat character in the shortning both of words and sentences. Invented, taught & published with plain directions examples and a specimen of the writing by Laurence Steel
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Short writing, began by nature compliated [sic] by art manifesting the irregularity of placing the artificial before the natural of symbolical contractions: and proposing a method more suited to sense, and more fully answering y [sic] requisited of a compleat character in the shortning both of words and sentences. Invented, taught & published with plain directions examples and a specimen of the writing by Laurence Steel
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Steel, Laurence, d. 1684.
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[N.p.] :: Sold in Bristoli by the author, & also by Charles Allen, bookseller in Broad-street of the same citty: and in London by Benjamin Clark stationer; in George Court Lumbard street and others,
printed in the yeare 1678.
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"Short writing, began by nature compliated [sic] by art manifesting the irregularity of placing the artificial before the natural of symbolical contractions: and proposing a method more suited to sense, and more fully answering y [sic] requisited of a compleat character in the shortning both of words and sentences. Invented, taught & published with plain directions examples and a specimen of the writing by Laurence Steel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61383.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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The Improve∣ment
of the former
Table by usefull end∣ings
for the contracting
of Sentences.
[ 13]
The Learner may
observe in the former
Table how several
Clauses of Sentences
are contracted by
marks set either on
the top or under the
Character where note
the marks set on top
are as follow
For of God or ye〈☐〉〈☐〉
Lord a tittle 〈☐〉〈☐〉
for
of Christ this 〈☐〉〈☐〉
of man this 〈☐〉〈☐〉
of mankind the 〈☐〉〈☐〉
of men & women 〈☐〉〈☐〉
of the Soul 〈☐〉〈☐〉
of the world this
mark (〈☐〉〈☐〉) placed un¦derneath
which are
fully exemplified in
the Table particularly
in the Letter E
The same marks
do stand for in God
or with or to God
or the Lord and
with Christ as the
foregoing word
shal dictate
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