The complete instructor of short hand upon principles applicable to the European languages--also to the technical terms used by anatomists ... / By W.I. Blanchard.

  • Blanchard, William Isaac, -1796.
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[1787]
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Credit: The complete instructor of short hand upon principles applicable to the European languages--also to the technical terms used by anatomists ... / By W.I. Blanchard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ?° ] provements upon the Art, it would take up too much time, and fill a number of pages, to fhew the abfurdity of thefe complex fyflems, which inft.eatl of improving the Art, tend only to bring it into difgrace. I fhall now give an account of the principles; upon which this Work is founded. The chara&ers of the alphabet confifl of (jut A one tight line or curve for each letter, and \yTith the help of diftionaries, by which the Englifii tongue could be viewed by the primary and con- cluding fyllables, the charafters eafieft to be formed, were applied to the letters in proportion to their numbers. The rules for contra&ion are entirely new, and there is nothing in common with other fyltems, but that of ufing interfe&ions, and con- fonants alone to words, where no vowels are neceflary. Vowels