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 May 27, 2024.

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The use of this Third Part may be seen in the underwritten Contrac∣tions, by which ye Lear∣ner may frame all others of ye like nature

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  • If a man have not ye Spirit of Christ he is none of his (〈☐〉〈☐〉)
  • Through much tribula∣tion you must enter in∣to ye kingdom of heaven 〈☐〉〈☐〉
  • I understand he hath not been with you a longtime 〈☐〉〈☐〉
  • 〈◊〉〈◊〉 acknowoledgeth he could not come from the place where he was 〈☐〉〈☐〉
  • Better you had not been born, then that you should continue as you are 〈☐〉〈☐〉
  • this is a breach of ye commandment of God 〈☐〉〈☐〉

Marks for the Books of the Bible, in order as they stand

  • Old Test: 〈36 letters〉〈36 letters〉
  • New Test: 〈19… letters〉〈19… letters〉

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