        item: #1 of 4
          id: A35113
      author: Cartwright, William.
       title: Semography, or, Short and swift writing invented and composed for the benefit of others by the author hereof, William Cartwright, and is now set forth and published by his nephew, Ieremiah Rich, immediate next to the authour, deceased ...
        date: 1642
       words: 4295
      flesch: 79
     summary: diall roit poet lion For words of two syllables we observe to separate the syllables in setting the first by it selfe , and expressing the other , like unto a word of one syllable ; As for Example : defile de fame de face de forme belike betime beseech beleeve become Thus the learner may observe , by these directions may learne to write any manner of word that can be named , but for the learners brevitie in this Art in writing of long words we have marks to observe for the beginning and ending of the same as followeth : CHAP. Being the most easiest , exactest , and speediest Method of all other that have beene yet extant : the full understanding is so easily attain'd that the Learner hereof needs no other help but the book it selfe , 〈…〉 which will bring him to such exact 〈…〉 that in a short time he shall be able to take word for word after the speaker with much ease .
    keywords: end; god; hand; learner; letters; short; sound; text; word; write; writing
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: A57289
      author: Ridpath, George, d. 1726.
       title: Short-hand yet shorter: or, The art of short-writing advanced in a more swift, easie, regular, and natural method than hitherto Whereby the former difficulties in placing the vowels are removed; they, the dipthongs and consonants, further contracted; the particles, pronouns, degrees of comparison, persons, moods, tenses, contrarieties, repetitions, sentences negative and interrogatory, are shortned. The rules are plain, easie to be remembred and applied to any other short-hand, that such as have learned other authors may have hence a very considerable help to write more swiftly without altering their foundation. By George Ridpath.
        date: 1687
       words: 11017
      flesch: 83
     summary: 6. I have given you such Rules for exchanging Letters of like sound , by which one may often serve for two or three , and such a plain Table of Syllables for beginning and ending of words as hath more dependance upon the Alphabet than any yet extant . I desire the Ingenuous Reader before he gives his Censure of the Work , to consider well the constant use there will be of the above-mentioned Rules for shortning and leaving out of words which are so common in all Discourses , and in the next place to consider the natural Method in which they are laid down , so as they may be quickly learned , and not burdensome to the Memory to retain ; and I doubt not but he will easily be perswaded , that besides the removal of former Difficulties , there is a very considerable Essay made here towards the Improvement , if not Perfection , of Short-hand .
    keywords: christ; examples; fig; god; hand; left; letters; person; place; rules; shall; vowel; way; word; write
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: A59630
      author: Hall, Ralph.
       title: Tachygraphy the most exact and compendious methode of short and swift writing that hath ever yet beene published by any / composed by Thomas Shelton ... ; approoved by both unyversities.
        date: 1641
       words: 7003
      flesch: 78
     summary: For philosophie write filosofie &c. F is likewise sounded in the end of words like ugh , and may be written for them : as , For enough write enuf &c. [ ] , not against dis thus [ ] , &c. Those markes for ending of words that begin with a vowell , are commonly to be joyned to the former mark or letter : as in these , durable nation bring and such like .
    keywords: art; chap; consonants; end; example; god; hath; letters; place; set; short; text; vowell; words; write; writing
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: A61383
      author: Browne, Joseph, fl. 1678.
       title: 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
        date: 1678
       words: 5028
      flesch: 52
     summary: 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Short Writing , Begun by Nature Compliated by Art Manifesting the Irregularity of placeing the Artificial before the Natural or Symbolical Contractions : And Proposing a Method more suited to Sense and more fully answering y e Requisites of a Compleat Character in the shortning both of Words and Sentences . Alphabeticall writing is only usefull to supply what cannot be written by a shorter method : Therefore that sort of Charactery is best reserved until y t w ch is more compendious & delightfull be past through This Table needs not much direction , where y e Learner is only to observe , how the sence of y e word is represented by the Character .
    keywords: break; character; christ; god; heart; man; sentences; tcp; text; words; world; write; writing; y e
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