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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descriptionPage [unnumbered]
How other
words not insert∣ed
in the Table
may be contracted
by the same
endings. How the
marks for words
and Sentences
doe consist, when
they meet in
one Clause.
[ 15]
Thus write these
Able 〈☐〉〈☐〉
cable 〈☐〉〈☐〉
sable 〈☐〉〈☐〉
table 〈☐〉〈☐〉
the same for ible
oble iple or ople
Bible 〈☐〉〈☐〉
noble 〈☐〉〈☐〉
couple 〈☐〉〈☐〉
double 〈☐〉〈☐〉
disciple 〈☐〉〈☐〉
people 〈☐〉〈☐〉
disciple of Christ〈☐〉〈☐〉
people of God 〈☐〉〈☐〉
For ity this
Contraricty 〈☐〉〈☐〉
samiliarity 〈☐〉〈☐〉
individuality 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Thus write these
City (〈☐〉〈☐〉) pitty (〈☐〉〈☐〉)
The same for ighty
uty, duly (〈☐〉〈☐〉) mighty (〈☐〉〈☐〉)
For meant. this (〈☐〉〈☐〉)
Aduancement 〈☐〉〈☐〉
government 〈☐〉〈☐〉
inlargment 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Thus write these
Paiment 〈☐〉〈☐〉
raiment 〈☐〉〈☐〉
The same for oment
moment 〈☐〉〈☐〉
indument 〈☐〉〈☐〉
For Son, sion, a tittle
within as
Afflictions 〈☐〉〈☐〉
ascentions 〈☐〉〈☐〉
descriptionPage [unnumbered]
[ 16]
Corruption 〈☐〉〈☐〉
destruction 〈☐〉〈☐〉
distinction 〈☐〉〈☐〉
contradiction 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Thus write
Version 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Circumcision 〈☐〉〈☐〉
thousand 〈☐〉〈☐〉
When the Endings
for words and Sen∣tences
meet write
them thus
Advancement
of Christ 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Manifestation
of God to man 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Establishment
of the Soul 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Government of
the World 〈☐〉〈☐〉
Other endings of
words which are
written in a direct
Line
For ance write (〈☐〉〈☐〉)
for ed 〈☐〉〈☐〉
for est〈☐〉〈☐〉
for eth 〈☐〉〈☐〉
for ing 〈☐〉〈☐〉
for ful 〈☐〉〈☐〉
for ness 〈☐〉〈☐〉
mercifullness 〈☐〉〈☐〉
What more Example
do occur of this kind
Words or Sentences
let them be written
in a Book.
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