A Practical Introduction to the Science of Short Hand, Upon the General Principles of the Late Ingenious Dr. ByromW. Gawtress & Company, 1819 - Počet stran: 94 |
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adjective adopted adverb point alpha alphabetical words annexed arbitrary at-ate auxiliary verb beginning bottom Byrom common consonant and vowel consonant mark contraction curved denoted described discover dispatch is required distinguish e's place employed English language EXAMPLES.-In expressed follow a speaker following sentence formed frequently grammatical grave accent Holy horizontal inclined characters insertion of vowels last consonant last examples learner legibility long hand long words loop manner of joining method middle mode of abbreviation mon alphabet nature number of letters occur omitted particular word perpendicular and inclined plainly practice practitioner preceding Prepositions and Terminations principles privy counsellors promote expedition pronoun pupil racters reason religion render represents the word respect rules second example short words signifies silent e Silent Letters Single Words specimen plates Stenographer stroke student substantive sufficiently syllable third example tion Treatise Triphthongs usual verbs vowel points writing the vowels
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Strana 53 - BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Strana 76 - Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Strana 16 - ... afforded to their preservation by short-hand. Were the operations of those who are professionally engaged in exercising this art to be suspended but for a single week, a blank would be left in the political and judicial history of our country, an impulse would be wanting to the public mind, and the nation would be taught to feel and acknowledge the important purposes it answers in the great business of life.
Strana 17 - The close attention requisite in following the voice of the speaker induces habits of patience, perseverance, and watchfulness, which will gradually extend themselves to other pursuits and avocations, and at length inure the writer to exercise them on every occasion in life. When writing in public, it will also be absolutely...
Strana 15 - In England, at least, this art may be considered a National Blessing, and thousands who look with the utmost indifference upon it, are daily reaping the fruits of its cultivation. It is scarcely necessary to mention how indispensable it is in taking minutes of public proceedings. If all...
Strana 18 - ... connection. This will naturally have a tendency to endue the mind with quickness of apprehension, and will impart an habitual readiness and distinctness of perception, as well as a methodical simplicity of arrangement, which cannot fail to conduce greatly to mental superiority. The judgment will be strengthened and the taste refined ; and the practitioner will by degrees become habituated to seize the original and leading parts of a discourse or harangue, and to reject whatever is common-place,...
Strana 18 - ... or harangue, and to reject whatever is commonplace, trivial, or uninteresting. " The memory is also improved by the practice of stenography. The obligation the writer is under to retain in his mind the last sentence of the speaker, at the same time that he is carefully attending to the following one, must be highly bénéficiai to that faculty, which, more than any other, owes its improvement to exercise.
Strana 16 - The advantages resulting from the exercise of this science are not, as is the case with many others, confined to a particular class of society; for, though it may seem more immediately calculated for those whose business it is to record the eloquence of public men and the proceedings of popular assemblies, yet it offers its assistance to persons of every rank and station in life — to the man of business as well as to the man of science — for the purpose of private convenience as well as of general...
Strana 17 - While writing in public, it will also be absolutely necessary to distinguish and adhere to the train of thought which runs through the discourse, and to observe the modes of its connection. This will naturally have a tendency to endue the mind with quickness of apprehension, and will impart an habitual...