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Brachygraphy or, short-writing, made easy to the meanest capacity. The Persons, Moods, & Tenses, Being comprized in such a Manner, that little more than the knowledge of the Alphabet is required, to the writing hundreds of Sentences, in less Time than Spoken. The Whole is founded on so just a Man, that it is wrote with greater Expedition than any yet Invented, and likewise may be read with the greatest Ease, Improv'd after upwards of Thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Tho: Gurney,.
Gurney, Thomas 1705-1770.Date: 1760- E-books
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Stenography; or, Short-hand improved Being the most compendious, lineal, and easy method hitherto extant. The persons, moods, tenses & particles which most frequently occur, are adapted to join with ease & accuracy at pleasure: the rules are laid down with such propriety, consistence, & perspicuity, that the practitioner will need no other assistance. The whole illustrated with an alphabetical praxis, adapted to all purposes in general, but more particularly to the three learned professions; namely, law, physic & divinity. By John Angell, who has practised this art above 30 years.
Angell, John d. 1764.Date: 1758
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Phonographic outlines of medical terms with an appendix : being a list of outlines and contractions for about 3000 of the more common medical terms and a list of similar words.
Society of Medical Phonographers.Date: 1902- E-books
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A new help and improvement of the art of swift writing being an alphabet not only contrive'd to be convenient for that purpose, but correspondent also in its Elements, especially the Consonants, to the several Articulations and Utterances that compose the English Language. Also Suitable Rules and Expedients of joining Letters, and abridging Words. With an appendix, containing Characters and Instructions for the Use of a larger Sett of Vowels, in which a philosophical Exactness is farther pursu'd. By William Tiffin, Chaplain of Wigston's Hospital in Leicester. Scribendo disces scribere.
Tiffin, William ca. 1695-1759.Date: 1751- E-books
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An easy and compendious system of shorthand adapted to the arts and sciences, and to the learned professions. By Thomas Sarjeant. [Four lines of verse].
Gurney, Thomas 1705-1770.Date: 1789